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CVE-2024-12327: LazyLoad Background Images <= 1.0.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Settings 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: 2025-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The LazyLoad Background Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pblzbg_save_settings() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's settings.

Affected products

• proloybhaduri LazyLoad Background Images: through 1.0.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lazyload-background-images/trunk/admin/plugin-functions.php#L152
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lazyload-background-images/trunk/admin/plugin-functions.php#L153
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d57fa9f3-b1c0-4601-96d9-178d0dba1332?source=cve

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