CVE-2024-13653 – ZoxPress WordPress Theme Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-13653 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Feb. 12, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description The ZoxPress – The All-In-One WordPress News Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the ‘backup_options’ function in all versions up to, and including, 2.12.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-862
    Added Reference https://themeforest.net/item/zoxpress-allinone-wordpress-news-theme/25586170
    Added Reference https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b4599c7f-5e5d-4571-97d9-54d6fd0c9c63?source=cve