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CVE-2024-8430: Spice Starter Sites <= 1.2.5 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Demo Content Import

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2024-10-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Spice Starter Sites plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the spice_starter_sites_importer_creater function in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to import demo content.

Affected products

• spicethemes Spice Starter Sites: through 1.2.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-starter-sites/tags/1.2.5/spice-starter-sites.php#L1123
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec52337f-bdd1-4632-853b-da86d64751e7?source=cve

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