CVE-2024-5997
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.36% probability · 30th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
EPSS 0.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L32
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L98
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/605fac87-e1e8-4354-a9d3-4440e54bc161?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L32
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L98
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/605fac87-e1e8-4354-a9d3-4440e54bc161?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.