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Patreon WordPress <= 1.9.0 — Protection Mechanism Bypass

CVE-2024-37430Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.9.0Update to 1.9.1 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
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-693 Protection Mechanism Failure
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Patreon WordPress patreon-connect

  1. Affected≤ 1.9.0
  2. Patched in1.9.1

Update to 1.9.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.9.0. Version 1.9.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Patreon WordPress.
  • 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 1.9.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Patreon WordPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to MCboyIR.

The Patreon WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection mechanism bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.0. This is due to plugin allowing a bypass when a specific header was supplied. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass image locking protections.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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≤1.9.0Update to 1.10.0
CVE-2026-92431
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤1.9.0Update to 1.10.0
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Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤1.9.17Update to 1.10.0
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Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤1.10.0Update to 1.11.0
CVE-2026-108481

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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