CVE-2024-12104
Published: 21 January 2025
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, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 38.2% 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).
Deeper analysis
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.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50598
Vulnerability details
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.…
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This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete project pages and files. CVE-2025-22657 may be a duplicate of this issue.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Missing authorization on delete function in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote unauthenticated exploitation (T1190) leading to arbitrary file/page deletion (T1485).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces approved authorizations for access to system resources, directly addressing the missing capability check that allowed unauthenticated deletion of project pages and files.
Applies least privilege to restrict delete functions to authorized users only, mitigating unauthorized data loss from functions lacking proper checks.
Mandates timely remediation of identified flaws, such as patching the Atarim plugin beyond version 4.0.9 to fix the missing authorization vulnerability.