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CVE-2024-12616: Bitly's WordPress Plugin <= 2.7.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) 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: 2025-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Bitly&#039;s WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on several AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update and retrieve plugin settings.

Affected products

• bitlydeveloper Bitly's WordPress Plugin: through 2.7.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-bitly/trunk/includes/class-wp-bitly-auth.php#L115
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3272740/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1312c34-45c6-41e5-b6fc-a45ac2c8a0ca?source=cve

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