Security Resilience

CVE-2024-47308

Access Control in Templately ≤ 3.1.3

Published
01 November 2024
Modified
23 April 2026
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.017 77th percentile
Risk Priority 72 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-47308 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability in Templately Templately. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 23% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-24 (Access Control Decisions) and AC-25 (Reference Monitor) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2024-47308 is a missing authorization vulnerability, tracked as CWE-862, that affects the Templately plugin for WordPress developed by WPDeveloper. The flaw impacts all versions through 3.1.2 and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.5, reflecting network-accessible exploitation with low attack complexity and no required privileges or user interaction.

An unauthenticated attacker can send crafted requests to the plugin to bypass authorization checks, resulting in limited integrity and availability impacts such as unauthorized modifications to templating data or service disruption, while confidentiality remains unaffected.

The Patchstack advisory identifies the issue as a broken access control vulnerability in the listed versions and points to remediation through an update that addresses the authorization gap. The EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.5215 on 2025-12-11 before receding to the current value of 0.3530, indicating a clear post-disclosure increase in exploitation interest.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Missing Authorization vulnerability in WPDeveloper Templately templately.This issue affects Templately: from n/a through <= 3.1.2.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2024-1862Shared CWE-862
CVE-2024-1587Shared CWE-862
CVE-2024-26138Shared CWE-862
CVE-2025-25120Shared CWE-862
CVE-2025-22592Shared CWE-862
CVE-2025-8357Shared CWE-862
CVE-2024-11104Shared CWE-862

Affected Assets

templately
templately
≤ 3.1.3

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 directly requires enforcement of authorization decisions on every access request, structurally eliminating missing authorization checks.

AC-24 mandates that access control decisions are applied to each request, preventing bypass of authorization logic.

AC-25 requires a tamperproof, always-invoked reference monitor that ensures authorization checks cannot be omitted.

AC-6 reduces the set of actions reachable without proper authorization, limiting blast radius of missing checks.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

blocks

Requiring formal authorization of every access request before rights are granted ensures that checks for required permissions are performed, preventing missing authorization checks from being introduced.

blocks

A.5.18's provisioning, review, revocation and activation steps (incl. owner approval, SoD, timely removal on role/termination change) directly stop exploitation of missing authorization checks by ensuring no actor receives or retains rights to resources they should not access; the bounded remainder is that it cannot stop missing-authorization defects inside the enforcement mechanism itself once rights have been granted (e.g. flawed code that ignores the rights table).

finds

By requiring competent outsiders to verify that every function enforces the need-to-know principle, the control lowers the likelihood that missing authorization checks persist undetected.

blocks

A.5.8 integrates risk assessment, requirements elicitation and governance into the project lifecycle so that authorization needs can be identified and specified; it does not itself perform or enforce authorization checks, so the missing-authorization weakness can still be present and exploitable.

blocks

Security checkpoints and explicit authorization requirements in the design phase ensure that every sensitive function is paired with an access-control check, reducing missing-authorization defects.

blocks

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (least privilege, default deny, security architecture integration, zero-trust never-trust/always-verify, dynamic access control) plus design reviews that directly specify and enforce authorization checks before access; this stops most missing-authorization cases from being exploitable, with a bounded remainder in non-architectural or legacy components where the principles were documented but not fully applied.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-862, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.

References