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CVE-2024-1093: Change Memory Limit <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization via admin_logic()

• 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: 2024-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Change Memory Limit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the admin_logic() function hooked via admin_init in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the memory limit.

Affected products

• simon99 Change Memory Limit: 1.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/change-memory-limit/trunk/change-mem-limit.php#L104
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eee7344d-5459-4558-a557-d8c5935ecc30?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/change-memory-limit/trunk/change-mem-limit.php#L104
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eee7344d-5459-4558-a557-d8c5935ecc30?source=cve

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