CVE-2024-12104
Published: 21 January 2025
Description
The Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the wpf_delete_file and wpf_delete_file functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete project pages and files. CVE-2025-22657 may be a duplicate of this issue.
Security Summary
CVE-2024-12104 is a vulnerability in the Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 4.0.9. It stems from a missing capability check on the wpf_delete_file function, classified under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization). This flaw enables unauthorized loss of data, with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N), indicating medium severity due to low integrity impact without confidentiality or availability effects.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. By invoking the affected function, they can delete project pages and files within Atarim-managed WordPress sites, potentially disrupting collaboration workflows and causing data loss for site owners relying on the plugin.
Mitigation details are available in advisories from Wordfence and the WordPress plugin trac repository, which document a patch applied in changeset 3225314 for the atarim-visual-collaboration repository. Security practitioners should update the Atarim plugin to a version beyond 4.0.9 via the WordPress admin dashboard to address the issue. Note that CVE-2025-22657 may be a duplicate of this vulnerability.
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