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CVE-2024-13316: Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests <= 2.8.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Coupon Creation

• 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: 2025-02-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the apmswn_create_discount() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create coupons.

Affected products

• akashmalik Scratch & Win: before 2.9.0 — fixed in 2.9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: akashmalik Scratch & Win 2.9.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook/tags/2.7.0/socialscratchwin.php#L492
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3212730%40scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook&new=3212730%40scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3239997%40scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook&new=3239997%40scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/95103830-9009-48df-ab15-476402b59e3f?source=cve

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