CVE-2024-10589: CWE-862 Missing Authorization in nouthemes Leopard - WordPress Offload Media
The Leopard - WordPress Offload Media plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the import_settings() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. 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.
CVE-2024-10589: CWE-862 Missing Authorization in nouthemes Leopard - WordPress Offload Media
Description
The Leopard - WordPress Offload Media plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the import_settings() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. 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.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2024-10-31T14:21:57.852Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6df6b7ef31ef0b591834
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:47:34 PM
Last updated: 2/26/2026, 9:12:57 AM
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