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CVE-2024-10664: Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs <= 2.16.3.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Database Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the basepress_db_posts_update() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.16.3.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the database.

Affected products

• codesavory Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs: through 2.16.3.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3201489%40basepress&new=3201489%40basepress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3aa6f3c2-0e45-4243-a26d-ba1c702fbe11?source=cve

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