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CVE-2024-6591
Ultimate WordPress Auction Plugin <= 4.2.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Email Creation
Medium5.8EPSS 0.40%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Ultimate WordPress Auction Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized email creation and sending due to a missing capability check on the 'send_auction_email_callback' and 'resend_auction_email_callback' functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to craft emails that include links and send to any email address.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Weakness
Affected products
nitesh_singh · Ultimate WordPress Auction Plugin
- affected ≤ 4.2.7
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/534a5d1d-cc34-4d84-b3a3-bf2282718656?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3132812/ultimate-auction/trunk/ultimate-auction.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-auction/trunk/ultimate-auction.php#L93 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-auction/trunk/ultimate-auction.php#L119 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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