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CVE-2024-12811: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Traveler WordPress theme versions up to 3.1.8 contain a Local File Inclusion vulnerability that affects authenticated users with Contributor or higher privileges. The vulnerability was discovered by István Márton and publicly disclosed on February 27, 2025 (Wordfence Threat).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2024-12811 with a CVSS score of 8.8 (High). It affects the Traveler WordPress theme up to version 3.1.8 (Wordfence Threat).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated users with Contributor or higher privileges to perform Local File Inclusion attacks, potentially exposing sensitive server files and information (Wordfence Threat).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires authentication with Contributor or higher level privileges to exploit (Wordfence Threat).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was addressed in version 3.1.9 of the Traveler theme, released on March 10th, 2025. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this vulnerability (Traveler Changelog).

Additional resources


Source: This report was generated using AI

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