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CVE-2024-13367: Sandbox <= 0.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sandbox Download

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2025-01-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Sandbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the export_download action in all versions up to, and including, 0.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to download an entire copy of a sandbox environment which can contain sensitive information like the wp-config.php file.

Affected products

• barteled Sandbox: through 0.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sandbox/trunk/sandbox-ajax.php#L21
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59880d92-5d75-432f-9fb5-d74b13d101ff?source=cve

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