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CVE-2024-1641: Accordion <= 2.2.96 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated(Contributor+) Post Duplication

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Accordion plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'accordions_duplicate_post_as_draft' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.96. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access and above, to duplicate arbitrary posts, allowing access to the contents of password-protected posts.

Affected products

• pickplugins Accordions: through 2.2.96

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accordions/tags/2.2.96/includes/duplicate-post.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/accordions/tags/2.2.96&old=3050599&new_path=/accordions/tags/2.2.97&new=3050599&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e7e7c70-4d07-4550-9cf8-5135b87b67ca?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accordions/tags/2.2.96/includes/duplicate-post.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/accordions/tags/2.2.96&old=3050599&new_path=/accordions/tags/2.2.97&new=3050599&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e7e7c70-4d07-4550-9cf8-5135b87b67ca?source=cve

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