Cyber Posture

CVE-2024-11951

Critical

Published: 05 March 2025

Published
05 March 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0025 48.7th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may create a local account to maintain access to victim systems.

Security Summary

CVE-2024-11951 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Homey Login Register plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 2.4.0. The issue stems from the plugin allowing users registering new accounts to set their own role, enabling unauthenticated attackers to create accounts with elevated privileges such as administrator.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low complexity and no privileges required, simply by registering a new account and specifying the administrator role. Successful exploitation grants full administrative access to the WordPress site, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as indicated by the CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and mapping to CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management).

Advisories and additional details are provided by Wordfence in their threat intelligence report and on the Homey Booking WordPress Theme page on ThemeForest.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-269

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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T1136.001 Local Account Persistence
Adversaries may create a local account to maintain access to victim systems.
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Why these techniques?

The vulnerability is a remote unauthenticated exploit in a public-facing WordPress plugin that allows creation of an administrator account, directly enabling T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application) for initial access, T1068 (Exploitation for Privilege Escalation) to gain admin rights, and T1136.001 (Create Account: Local Account) via the abused registration mechanism.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

References