CVE-2024-9265: CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management in CodeRevolution Echo RSS Feed Post Generator
The Echo RSS Feed Post Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.6. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that can set during registration through the echo_check_post_header_sent() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrator.
CVE-2024-9265: CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management in CodeRevolution Echo RSS Feed Post Generator
Description
The Echo RSS Feed Post Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.6. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that can set during registration through the echo_check_post_header_sent() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrator.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2024-09-26T20:30:45.737Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6b47b7ef31ef0b550d2a
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:36:07 PM
Last updated: 2/26/2026, 10:38:18 AM
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