CVE-2024-13656

High

Published: 12 February 2025

Published

12 February 2025

Modified

24 February 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0008 23.9th percentile

Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-13656 is a high-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability in Mvpthemes Click Mag. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 23.9th 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).

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 logical access to system resources, directly addressing the missing capability check in the AJAX callback that allows unauthorized data modification.

AC-6 Least Privilege good match

prevent

Restricts user privileges to the minimum necessary, preventing subscriber-level accounts from executing high-privilege actions like deleting arbitrary WordPress options.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Requires identification, reporting, and correction of system flaws, enabling timely patching of the vulnerable theme to eliminate the unauthorized modification capability.

NVD Description

The Click Mag - Viral WordPress News Magazine/Blog Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to a denial of service due to a missing capability check on the propanel_of_ajax_callback() function in all versions…

up to, and including, 3.6.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary option values on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to delete an option that would create an error on the site and deny service to legitimate users.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2024-13656 is a vulnerability in the Click Mag - Viral WordPress News Magazine/Blog Theme for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.6.0. It stems from a missing capability check in the propanel_of_ajax_callback() function, enabling unauthorized modification of data (CWE-862). The issue has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H), rated High due to its potential for integrity and availability impacts.

Authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher can exploit this vulnerability remotely without user interaction. By leveraging the flawed AJAX callback, they can delete arbitrary WordPress option values, which may trigger site errors and result in a denial of service for legitimate users.

Advisories, including the Wordfence threat intelligence report at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ee5df5fe-4213-4d36-aa8f-7eb2710c32b6?source=cve, provide detailed analysis. The theme's page on ThemeForest at https://themeforest.net/item/click-mag-viral-wordpress-news-magazineblog-theme/18081003 offers additional context on the software.