CVE-2024-11951

Critical

Published: 05 March 2025

Published

05 March 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0025 48.7th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2024-11951 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) vulnerability in Themeforest (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 48.7th 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-2 (Account Management) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 2 other techniques. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

AC-2 Account Management good match

prevent

AC-2 requires managing account creation to assign only appropriate roles and privileges, directly preventing unauthenticated self-escalation to administrator during registration.

AC-6 Least Privilege good match

prevent

AC-6 enforces least privilege for accounts, ensuring new registrations cannot be assigned elevated roles like administrator.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

SI-10 mandates validating inputs like the self-specified role in registration forms, rejecting unauthorized privilege assignments.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

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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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

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

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T1136.001 Local Account Persistence

Adversaries may create a local account to maintain access to victim systems.

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Why these techniques?

The vulnerability is a remote unauthenticated exploit in a public-facing WordPress plugin that allows creation of an administrator account, directly enabling T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application) for initial access, T1068 (Exploitation for Privilege Escalation) to gain admin rights, and T1136.001 (Create Account: Local Account) via the abused registration mechanism.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

NVD Description

The Homey Login Register plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.0. This is due to the plugin allowing users who are registering new accounts to set their own role. This makes…

it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain elevated privileges by creating an account with the administrator role.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2024-11951 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Homey Login Register plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 2.4.0. The issue stems from the plugin allowing users registering new accounts to set their own role, enabling unauthenticated attackers to create accounts with elevated privileges such as administrator.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low complexity and no privileges required, simply by registering a new account and specifying the administrator role. Successful exploitation grants full administrative access to the WordPress site, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as indicated by the CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and mapping to CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management).

Advisories and additional details are provided by Wordfence in their threat intelligence report and on the Homey Booking WordPress Theme page on ThemeForest.