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CVE-2024-12620: AnimateGL Animations for WordPress – Elementor & Gutenberg Blocks Animations <= 1.4.23 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2025-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The AnimateGL Animations for WordPress – Elementor & Gutenberg Blocks Animations plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'agl_json' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.23. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings.

Affected products

• creativeinteractivemedia AnimateGL Animations for WordPress – Elementor & Gutenberg Blocks Animations: through 1.4.23

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/animategl/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/841a028d-ff36-4e3f-903b-e25951648075?source=cve

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