{"id":"CVE-2024-9488","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-9488","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:55:23.007Z","title":"The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.24.","description":"The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.24. This is due to insufficient verification on the user being returned by the social login token. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the email and the user does not have an already-existing account for the service returning the token.","published":"2024-10-25T06:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:24:40.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-288"],"affected":["gvectors/wpdiscuz"],"epss":{"score":0.00811,"percentile":0.56672,"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":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.81%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpdiscuz/trunk/forms/wpdFormAttr/Login/SocialLogin.php","tags":["Product"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3164486/","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b71706a7-e101-4d50-a2da-1aeeaf07cf4b?source=cve","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9488","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."}