Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-56286

High

Published: 07 January 2025

Published
07 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0073 73.2th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-56286 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 26.8% 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-56286 is an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability, mapped to CWE-22, in the WordPress plugin Classic Addons – WPBakery Page Builder (classic-addons-wpbakery-page-builder-addons) from webcodingplace. The flaw enables PHP Local File Inclusion and affects all versions from n/a through 3.0 inclusive. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Low-privileged remote attackers (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with high attack complexity (AC:H) and without requiring user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation grants high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H) within the unchanged scope (S:U), allowing inclusion of arbitrary local PHP files.

Mitigation guidance is available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/classic-addons-wpbakery-page-builder-addons/vulnerability/wordpress-classic-addons-wpbakery-page-builder-plugin-3-0-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in webcodingplace Classic Addons – WPBakery Page Builder classic-addons-wpbakery-page-builder-addons allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects Classic Addons – WPBakery Page Builder: from n/a through <= 3.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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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Why these techniques?

Path traversal in public-facing WP plugin directly enables T1190 via LFI of arbitrary local PHP files by remote low-priv attackers.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Directly requires timely remediation of the specific path traversal flaw in the WordPress plugin to prevent exploitation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Mandates validation of user-supplied pathnames to block path traversal and local file inclusion attempts.

SC-7 Boundary Protection partial match
preventdetect

Implements boundary protections like web application firewalls to inspect and block network requests exploiting path traversal.

References