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CVE-2024-6599: Meks Video Importer <= 1.0.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) API Keys Modification

• 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: 2024-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Meks Video Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized API key modification due to a missing capability check on the ajax_save_settings function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.12. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify the plugin's API keys. CVE-2024-38733 may be a duplicate of this issue.

Affected products

• Meks Video Importer: through 1.0.12

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meks-video-importer/trunk/includes/class.meks-video-importer-vimeo.php#L74
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meks-video-importer/trunk/includes/class.meks-video-importer-youtube.php#L98
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eaf9cc48-1ba6-4e9b-9f49-54f7747c26e0?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meks-video-importer/trunk/includes/class.meks-video-importer-vimeo.php#L74
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meks-video-importer/trunk/includes/class.meks-video-importer-youtube.php#L98
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eaf9cc48-1ba6-4e9b-9f49-54f7747c26e0?source=cve

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