CVE•Published 2025-03-05•Modified 2026-04-08•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2024-12281
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Homey theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2. This is due to the plugin allowing users who are registering new accounts to set their own role. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain elevated privileges by creating an account with the Administrator, Editor, or Shop Manager role.
Timeline
Published 2025-03-05
Modified 2026-04-08
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2024-12281Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2024-12281Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2024-12281Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2024-12281GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2024-12281" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (3)
CVE-2024-122813 repos
Xuchen-Li/cv-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically update arXiv papers about SOT & VLT, Multi-modal Learning, LLM and Video Understanding using Github Actions.
maxgfr/awesome-starsunknown
List of repositories that I liked on Github
opendr-io/causalityJupyter Notebook
The difference between exploitation prediction and detection is akin to the difference between detecting a missile launch or a detonation. Every avoided exploitation cycle saves hu…