Nitro by WooRockets <= 1.7.9 — Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Plugin Installation
c70ed02e-1183-475b-a110-4a2d8dbe610ePublished · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.7.9No patch available
What to do until a fix shipsOn this page3
Overview
- Advisory ID
- c70ed02e-1183-475b-a110-4a2d8dbe610e
- Product
- Nitro by WooRockets wr-nitro
- Affected
- ≤1.7.9
- Fixed in
- no fix yet
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Brad Patton
- Affected≤ 1.7.9
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:HIntegrity- High
A:NAvailability- None
The Nitro by WooRockets theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Plugin Installation in versions up to, and including, 1.7.9. This is due to missing authorization checks on some of its AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install arbitrary plugins on the vulnerable service, adding unwanted plugins and potentially overwriting stored data.
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Remediation & mitigations
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- 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
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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
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