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CVE-2024-11840: RapidLoad – Optimize Web Vitals Automatically <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Settings Modification and SQL Injection

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 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: 2024-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The RapidLoad – Optimize Web Vitals Automatically plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the uucss_data, update_rapidload_settings, wp_ajax_update_htaccess_file, uucss_update_rule, upload_rules, get_all_rules, update_titan_settings, preload_page, and activate_module functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify plugin settings or conduct SQL injection attacks.

Affected products

• shakee93 RapidLoad AI – Optimize Web Vitals Automatically: through 2.4.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3202982/unusedcss
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2c8ff4ec-9b40-4d59-b3b0-382f91042a4a?source=cve

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