Vulnerability · Published Mar 19, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2024-12922Altair <= 5.2.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update via pp_import_current

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity missing authorization in Altair from ThemeGoods. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 44% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 55.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Altair theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check within functions.php in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
ThemeGoods Altair 0 – through 5.2.4

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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