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CVE-2024-0900: Elespare – Build Your Blog, News & Magazine Websites with Expert-Designed Template Kits. One Click Import: No Coding Skills Required! <= 2.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Subscriber+ Arbitrary Post Creation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Elespare – Build Your Blog, News & Magazine Websites with Expert-Designed Template Kits. One Click Import: No Coding Skills Required! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post creation due to a missing capability check on the elespare_create_post() function hooked via AJAX in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary posts.

Affected products

• WordPress Elespare: 2.1.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3071565%40elespare&new=3071565%40elespare&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f94efa6-b88b-442d-8162-f03efa7f2f65?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3071565%40elespare&new=3071565%40elespare&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f94efa6-b88b-442d-8162-f03efa7f2f65?source=cve

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