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CVE-2024-3663: WP Scraper <= 5.7 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Page/Post Creation

• 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: 2024-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The WP Scraper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wp_scraper_multi_scrape_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary pages and posts.

Affected products

• rico-macchi WP Scraper: through 5.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-scraper/trunk/wp-scraper.php#L1426
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3095663%40wp-scraper&new=3095663%40wp-scraper&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1a4bc52d-5771-4e7b-a394-772f2a5edbd7?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-scraper/trunk/wp-scraper.php#L1426
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1a4bc52d-5771-4e7b-a394-772f2a5edbd7?source=cve

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