CVE-2024-12104

Medium

Published: 21 January 2025

Published

21 January 2025

Modified

08 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0041 61.4th percentile

Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-12104 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability in Atarim Atarim. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 38.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; 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 SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match

prevent

Enforces approved authorizations for access to system resources, directly addressing the missing capability check that allowed unauthenticated deletion of project pages and files.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match

prevent

Applies least privilege to restrict delete functions to authorized users only, mitigating unauthorized data loss from functions lacking proper checks.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Mandates timely remediation of identified flaws, such as patching the Atarim plugin beyond version 4.0.9 to fix the missing authorization vulnerability.

NVD Description

The Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the wpf_delete_file and wpf_delete_file functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.9.…

This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete project pages and files. CVE-2025-22657 may be a duplicate of this issue.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2024-12104 is a vulnerability in the Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 4.0.9. It stems from a missing capability check on the wpf_delete_file function, classified under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization). This flaw enables unauthorized loss of data, with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N), indicating medium severity due to low integrity impact without confidentiality or availability effects.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. By invoking the affected function, they can delete project pages and files within Atarim-managed WordPress sites, potentially disrupting collaboration workflows and causing data loss for site owners relying on the plugin.

Mitigation details are available in advisories from Wordfence and the WordPress plugin trac repository, which document a patch applied in changeset 3225314 for the atarim-visual-collaboration repository. Security practitioners should update the Atarim plugin to a version beyond 4.0.9 via the WordPress admin dashboard to address the issue. Note that CVE-2025-22657 may be a duplicate of this vulnerability.