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Add Expires Headers & Optimized Minify <= 3.2.0 — Missing Authorization

CVE-2026-24633Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.2.0Update to 3.3.0 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:N/I:L/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:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
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?

AEH Speed Optimization: Browser Cache, Optimized Minify, Lazy Loading & Image Optimization add-expires-headers

  1. Affected≤ 3.2.0
  2. Patched in3.3.0

Update to 3.3.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.2.0. Version 3.3.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under AEH Speed Optimization: Browser Cache, Optimized Minify, Lazy Loading & Image Optimization.
  • 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 3.3.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch AEH Speed Optimization: Browser Cache, Optimized Minify, Lazy Loading & Image Optimization to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Nabil Irawan.

The Add Expires Headers & Optimized Minify plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 3.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

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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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. 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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