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Graphene <= 2.9.2 — Missing Authorization

CVE-2024-1984Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.9.2Update to 2.9.3 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Graphene graphene

  1. Affected≤ 2.9.2
  2. Patched in2.9.3

Update to 2.9.3 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.9.2. Version 2.9.3 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Graphene.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.9.3, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Graphene to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Krzysztof Zając.

The Graphene theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data via meta tag in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated individuals to obtain post contents of password protected posts via the generated source.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Graphene

All 3
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Profile Fields
≤2.9.4Update to 2.9.6
CVE-2026-17025
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.9.4Update to 2.9.6
CVE-2026-81281

Same weakness (Missing Authorization)

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-text-sec', 'data-title', and 'title' Attributes via Custom HTML Block
Flatsome≤3.20.12Update to 3.20.13
CVE-2026-18742
High7.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Arbitrary File Deletion via 'comment_content'/'comment_agent' Parameter during Attachment Rename
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Critical9.8Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Password Reset / Account Takeover via Webhook with 'Is the user ID' Field
AutomatorWP Webhooks≤1.4.4Update to 1.4.5
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High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
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CVE-2026-120688

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. Record last updated

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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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