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CVE-2024-3722: Swift Performance Lite <= 2.3.6.18 - Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Modification

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

The Swift Performance Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the ajax_handler() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.6.18. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve and modify settings.

Affected products

• swte Swift Performance Lite: through 2.3.6.18

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3082274%40swift-performance-lite&new=3082274%40swift-performance-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/58b7736a-e3e0-4ecd-9adf-284568b02ef7?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/swift-performance-lite/trunk/includes/setup/setup.php#L97
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/58b7736a-e3e0-4ecd-9adf-284568b02ef7?source=cve

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