CVE-2024-2505 | GamiPress < 6.8.9 - Broken Access Control

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The GamiPress WordPress plugin before 6.8.9's access control mechanism fails to properly restrict access to its settings, permitting Authors to manipulate requests and extend access to lower privileged users, like Subscribers, despite initial settings prohibiting such access. This vulnerability resembles broken access control, enabling unauthorized users to modify critical GamiPress WordPress plugin before 6.8.9 configurations.

Published: 2024-04-29 Last update: 2025-05-08 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-2505 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.2/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.63%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-2505

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-2505

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-18 0.54% 0.63% +0.09%
2 2026-03-29 0.72% 0.54% -0.18%
3 2025-11-21 — 0.72% —

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-2505

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
8.1 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 5.2 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-2505

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-2505

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gamipress gamipress < 6.8.9 cpe:2.3:a:gamipress:gamipress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2024-2505

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