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CVE-2024-8195: Permalink Manager Lite <= 2.4.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2024-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Permalink Manager Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'debug_data', 'debug_query', and 'debug_redirect' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including password, title, and content of password-protected posts.

Affected products

• mbis Permalink Manager Lite: before 2.4.4.1 — fixed in 2.4.4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: mbis Permalink Manager Lite 2.4.4.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/permalink-manager/tags/2.4.4/includes/core/permalink-manager-debug.php#L70
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3142479/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aadf1d59-60ba-4da2-adbb-4e84d587a34d?source=cve

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