CVE-2024-4037 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 8.7.02.003. This is due to the plugin allowing unauthenticated users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Wppa	Wp Photo Album Plus

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wppa:wp_photo_album_plus:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/trunk/wppa-ajax.php#L1138
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3078746%40wp-photo-album-plus&new=3078746%40wp-photo-album-plus&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file3
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3079831%40wp-photo-album-plus&new=3079831%40wp-photo-album-plus&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3d6b95ee-0a0d-49f7-83b1-4716eec3b863?source=cve

History

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Wppa Wppa wp Photo Album Plus
Weaknesses		CWE-94
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:wppa:wp_photo_album_plus::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Wppa Wppa wp Photo Album Plus

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-05-24T08:30:25.222Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:26:57.318Z

Reserved: 2024-04-22T18:28:05.517Z

Link: CVE-2024-4037

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:26:57.318Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-24T09:15:08.873

Modified: 2025-04-04T17:52:02.887

Link: CVE-2024-4037

Redhat

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