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CVE-2024-8121

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.4 Published: 2024-09-04 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.

Affected Platforms

Wpextended Wp Extended

Weakness Type

CWE-862

References