Altair <= 5.2.4 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update via pp_import_current
CVE-2024-12922Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.2.4Update to 5.2.5 or newer
All remediation stepsOn this page3
Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2024-12922
- Product
- Altair altair
- Affected
- ≤5.2.4
- Fixed in
- 5.2.5
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Tonn
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 5.2.4
- Patched in5.2.5
Update to 5.2.5 or newer.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
The Altair theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check within functions.php in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers 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.
Not sure which version you run? Run a passive check — it reads public files only.
Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 5.2.5, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
All 3 in AltairTimeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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