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1 vulnerability found for Zox News by MVPThemes

CVE-2024-11936 (GCVE-0-2024-11936)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-26 11:09
Modified
2026-04-08 16:48
CWE
Summary
The Zox News theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'backup_options' and 'restore_options' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.16.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, 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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
MVPThemes Zox News Version: 0    3.16.0
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