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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-12876
CVE-2024-12876:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Golo - City Travel Guide WordPress Theme (version <= 1.6.10) contains a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-12876) that allows unauthorized users to change arbitrary user passwords. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on March 6, 2025, and received a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) (Wordfence).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from improper authorization controls in the password change functionality. The theme does not properly validate a user's identity before allowing password updates, enabling unauthenticated attackers to modify any user's password (Wordfence).
Impact
This vulnerability could allow attackers to take control of any user account on affected WordPress sites, including administrator accounts. This could lead to complete site compromise, data theft, and unauthorized content modifications (Wordfence).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should immediately update to version 1.6.12 or later of the Golo theme, which contains a fix for this vulnerability. The update was released on February 19, 2025, and addresses the password change form error (ThemeForest).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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