CVE-2024-10861: Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups <= 4.9.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Limited Options Update

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2024-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the deactivate_plugin_option() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the 'ays_pb_upgrade_plugin' option with arbitrary data.

Affected products

Ays Pro Popup box: through 4.9.7

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ays-popup-box/tags/4.9.2/admin/class-ays-pb-admin.php#L609
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3188357/ays-popup-box/tags/4.9.8/admin/class-ays-pb-admin.php?old=3186262&old_path=ays-popup-box%2Ftags%2F4.9.7%2Fadmin%2Fclass-ays-pb-admin.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c3717e03-9a18-48a1-97d3-1d41c7f93261?source=cve

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