CVE-2024-53795 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-53795: WordPress Church Admin plugin <= 5.0.8 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

Vendor Andy_Moyle

Product Church Admin

Weakness CWE-862 · Missing authorization

Published December 6, 2024

Last update April 28, 2026

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CVSS base score

5.3/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Confidentiality None

Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in andy_moyle Church Admin church-admin allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Church Admin: from n/a through <= 5.0.8.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Church Admin versions 5.0.8 and earlier lack proper authorization checks, allowing unauthenticated attackers to disrupt service availability. The vulnerability requires only network access and no user interaction. An attacker can trigger a denial-of-service condition by sending crafted requests to the application.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Disrupt the site's availability by sending requests that consume resources or crash the application.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

Your Church Admin site may become unavailable or unresponsive to legitimate users without warning.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

Network access only; no authentication or user interaction required.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

December 6, 2024 CVE published

April 28, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53795 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html AskarLabs — CWE-862 write-up Missing Authorization

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