Cyber Posture

CVE-2024-54291

High

Published: 28 March 2025

Published
28 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0037 59.1th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources.

Security Summary

CVE-2024-54291 is an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability, classified as CWE-22, in the labs64 PluginPass WordPress plugin (pluginpass-pro-plugintheme-licensing). It enables manipulation of web input to file system calls and affects all versions from n/a through 0.9.10.

Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), no privileges (PR:N), and no user interaction (UI:N). The issue results in a scope change (S:C) with high availability impact (A:H) and a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.6, allowing arbitrary file download and deletion capabilities.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/pluginpass-pro-plugintheme-licensing/vulnerability/wordpress-pluginpass-plugin-0-9-10-arbitrary-file-download-delete-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this as an arbitrary file download/delete vulnerability in WordPress PluginPass plugin version 0.9.10. Security practitioners should consult the advisory for detailed mitigation and patching guidance.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-22

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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T1005 Data from Local System Collection
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
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T1070.004 File Deletion Stealth
Adversaries may delete files left behind by the actions of their intrusion activity.
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T1485 Data Destruction Impact
Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources.
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Why these techniques?

Path traversal in public-facing WordPress plugin enables remote exploitation (T1190) with arbitrary file download (T1005) and deletion (T1070.004, T1485).

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

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