CVE-2024-1653 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Categorify plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the categorifyAjaxUpdateFolderPosition in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the folder position of categories as well as update the metadata of other taxonomies.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00102.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Frenify	Categorify

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:frenify:categorify:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3034410/categorify
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45badd20-1ba8-44be-8a7c-2ce21261e208?source=cve

History

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Frenify Frenify categorify
Weaknesses		CWE-862
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:frenify:categorify::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Frenify Frenify categorify

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-02-27T11:05:06.723Z

Updated: 2025-04-22T16:09:28.333Z

Reserved: 2024-02-19T23:58:23.204Z

Link: CVE-2024-1653

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:48:21.440Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-02-27T11:15:08.690

Modified: 2025-01-07T14:35:33.360

Link: CVE-2024-1653

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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