Time Clock <= 1.2.2 & Time Clock Pro <= 1.1.4 — Unauthenticated (Limited) Remote Code Execution
CVE-2024-9593Published · Updated Action summary
Time Clock Pro: Affected: ≤1.1.4Update to 1.1.5 or newer
Time Clock – A WordPress Employee & Volunteer Time Clock Plugin: Affected: ≤1.2.2Update to 1.2.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.3
- CVSS
- 8.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:LAvailability- Low
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Time Clock Pro time-clock-pro
- Affected≤ 1.1.4
- Patched in1.1.5
Update to 1.1.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.1.4. Version 1.1.5 and later are not affected by this issue.
Time Clock – A WordPress Employee & Volunteer Time Clock Plugin time-clock
- Affected≤ 1.2.2
- Patched in1.2.3
Update to 1.2.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.2. Version 1.2.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Time Clock Pro.
- 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
- Update to version 1.1.5, or a newer patched version
- Update to version 1.2.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Time Clock Pro to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton.
The Time Clock plugin and Time Clock Pro plugin for WordPress are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in versions up to, and including, 1.2.2 (for Time Clock) and 1.1.4 (for Time Clock Pro) via the 'etimeclockwp_load_function_callback' function. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server. The invoked function's parameters cannot be specified.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- 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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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.