🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2024-5997

MEDIUM 4.3

Duplica <= 0.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Users/Posts Duplicates Creation

CVSS Score
4.3
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts or Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the duplicate_user and duplicate_post functions in all versions up to, and including, 0.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create duplicates of users and posts/pages.

CWE CWE-862
Vendor codexpert
Product duplica – duplicate posts, pages, custom posts or users
Published Jul 18, 2024
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

codexpert / Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts or Users
0 ≤ 0.6

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/605fac87-e1e8-4354-a9d3-4440e54bc161?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L32 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L98

Credits

Lucio Sá