CVE-2024-13852 HIGH

CVE-2024-13852: Option Editor <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Options Update

Vendor Backie
Product Option Editor
Weakness CWE-352 · CSRF
Published February 18, 2025
Last update April 8, 2026

CVSS base score

8.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Option Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the plugin_page() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 18, 2025 CVE published
April 8, 2026 Record updated

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