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CVE-2024-5997: Duplica <= 0.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Users/Posts Duplicates Creation
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2024-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-862
Description
The Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts or Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the duplicate_user and duplicate_post functions in all versions up to, and including, 0.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create duplicates of users and posts/pages.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L32
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L98
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/605fac87-e1e8-4354-a9d3-4440e54bc161?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L32
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L98
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/605fac87-e1e8-4354-a9d3-4440e54bc161?source=cve
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