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CVE-2024-33552: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2024-33552 is an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability affecting the 8theme XStore Core WordPress plugin through version 5.3.8. The vulnerability was discovered by Rafie Muhammad and publicly disclosed on April 25, 2024 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Privilege Management issue (CWE-269) and has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 CRITICAL (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The vulnerability enables unauthenticated users to pass serialized strings to a vulnerable unserialize call, which could potentially lead to remote code execution in worst-case scenarios (Security Online).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to gain higher privileged access to vulnerable sites. This could potentially lead to complete website takeover, data breaches, and the injection of malicious code (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in XStore Core plugin version 5.3.9. Users are strongly advised to update to this version immediately to protect their websites from potential exploits (Security Online).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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