{"id":"CVE-2024-5449","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-5449","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:14:52.687Z","title":"The WP Dark Mode – WordPress Dark Mode Plugin for Improved Accessibility, Dark Theme, Night Mode, and Social Sharing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the…","description":"The WP Dark Mode – WordPress Dark Mode Plugin for Improved Accessibility, Dark Theme, Night Mode, and Social Sharing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the wpdm_social_share_save_options function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's settings.","published":"2024-06-06T04:15:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:15:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":["wppool/wp dark mode"],"epss":{"score":0.00343,"percentile":0.27596,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-dark-mode/trunk/includes/modules/social-share/class-social-share.php#L581","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3096290/wp-dark-mode/trunk?contextall=1&old=3073245&old_path=%2Fwp-dark-mode%2Ftrunk","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7d20733-d61b-4b2f-8597-528644f0bc26?source=cve","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-dark-mode/trunk/includes/modules/social-share/class-social-share.php#L581","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3096290/wp-dark-mode/trunk?contextall=1&old=3073245&old_path=%2Fwp-dark-mode%2Ftrunk","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7d20733-d61b-4b2f-8597-528644f0bc26?source=cve","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5449","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}