CVE-2024-8121: CWE-862 Missing Authorization in wpextended The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended
The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.
CVE-2024-8121: CWE-862 Missing Authorization in wpextended The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended
Description
The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2024-08-23T14:40:34.473Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6c22b7ef31ef0b560582
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:39:46 PM
Last updated: 2/26/2026, 6:09:32 AM
Views: 1
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