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CVE-2024-9531: MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution <= 4.2.4 - Missing Authorization to Forged Vendor Profile Deletion Email Sending

• 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: 2024-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

The MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'mvx_sent_deactivation_request' function in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to send a canned email to the site's administrator asking to delete the profile of an arbitrary vendor.

Affected products

• MultiVendorX: before 4.2.5 — fixed in 4.2.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MultiVendorX 4.2.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor/trunk/classes/class-mvx-ajax.php#L3780
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3173238/dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor/trunk/classes/class-mvx-ajax.php?contextall=1&old=3168957&old_path=%2Fdc-woocommerce-multi-vendor%2Ftrunk%2Fclasses%2Fclass-mvx-ajax.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5af1063c-615e-4196-9fa6-960c008544c4?source=cve

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