CVE-2024-1716

medium

Description

The Admin Bar Remover plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the update_form() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.2.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to enable or disable the admin bar on the front-end of the site.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dfbf2556-0509-4d8a-8949-494c6bc82ea1?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2955636/admin-bar/trunk

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-bar/trunk/Inc/Classes/AdminBarRemover.php#L81

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-05-02

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00175