CVE-2024-10591

High

Published: 30 January 2025

Published

30 January 2025

Modified

08 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0011 29.8th percentile

Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-10591 is a high-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability in Makewebbetter Hubspot For Woocommerce. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 29.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-10591 affects the MWB HubSpot for WooCommerce – CRM, Abandoned Cart, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation & Analytics plugin for WordPress in all versions up to and including 1.5.9. The vulnerability stems from a missing capability check on the hubwoo_save_updates() function, enabling unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation, as classified under CWE-862. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and was published on 2025-01-30.

Authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher can exploit this issue remotely without user interaction. By calling the vulnerable function, they can update arbitrary WordPress options, such as changing the default role for new user registrations to administrator and enabling user registration. This allows attackers to create administrative accounts and gain full control over the site.

Advisories reference the vulnerable code in class-hubwoo-ajax-handler.php at line 845, a patch in changeset 3231984, and Wordfence threat intelligence detailing the issue. Security practitioners should update to a patched version beyond 1.5.9 to mitigate the risk.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-32882

Vulnerability details

The MWB HubSpot for WooCommerce – CRM, Abandoned Cart, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation & Analytics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the hubwoo_save_updates()…

function in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

CWE(s): CWE-862

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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Why these techniques?

Missing capability check enables authenticated low-privileged users to modify arbitrary options (e.g., default_role, users_can_register) for privilege escalation to admin; directly exploitable on public-facing WordPress site.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1