{"id":"CVE-2024-5997","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-5997","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:41:54.871Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2024-07-18T22:15:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:17:04.000Z","status":"Deferred","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":[],"epss":{"score":0.00362,"percentile":0.29831,"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 (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L32","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L98","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/605fac87-e1e8-4354-a9d3-4440e54bc161?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L32","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L98","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/605fac87-e1e8-4354-a9d3-4440e54bc161?source=cve","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5997","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."}