CVE•Published 2024-03-13•Modified 2026-04-08•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2024-2172
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
78
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 22% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Malware Scanner plugin and the Web Application Firewall plugin for WordPress (both by MiniOrange) are vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the mo_wpns_init() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.2 (for Malware Scanner) and 2.1.1 (for Web Application Firewall). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator.
Timeline
Published 2024-03-13
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-2024-2172Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2024-2172Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2024-2172Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2024-2172GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2024-2172" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.