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CVE-2024-8430 (GCVE-0-2024-8430)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-01 08:30 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:31

Title

Spice Starter Sites <= 1.2.5 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Demo Content Import

Summary

The Spice Starter Sites plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the spice_starter_sites_importer_creater function in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to import demo content.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-01 13:28 UTC

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
spicethemes	Spice Starter Sites	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.2.5 (semver)	guessed
spicethemes	spice_starter_sites	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.2.5 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:spicethemes:spice_starter_sites::::::::

Credits

Lucio Sá

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FKIE_CVE-2024-8430

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-10-01 09:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:22

Severity

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-starter-sites/tags/1.2.5/spice-starter-sites.php#L1123
	security@wordfence.com	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec52337f-bdd1-4632-853b-da86d64751e7?source=cve

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-JM63-GFMJ-678F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-10-01 09:30 – Updated: 2024-10-01 09:30

Details

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


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

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