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CVE-2024-10786: Simple Local Avatars <= 2.7.11 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) User Cache Clearing

• 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: 2024-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Simple Local Avatars plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of datadue to a missing capability check on the sla_clear_user_cache function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to clear user caches.

Affected products

• 10up Simple Local Avatars: through 2.7.11

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-local-avatars/tags/2.7.11/includes/class-simple-local-avatars.php#L1374
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3186674/simple-local-avatars/tags/2.8.0/includes/class-simple-local-avatars.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2619d50-e295-4e13-91d4-f998b8aa5be4?source=cve

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