CVE-2024-1771 (GCVE-0-2024-1771)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-06 05:33 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:42
VLAI
Title
Total <= 2.1.59 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sections Update
Summary
The Total theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the total_order_sections() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.59. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to repeat sections on the homepage.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-31 19:35 UTC
CWE
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2215 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
hashthemes Total Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.1.59 (semver)
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hashthemes total Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.1.59 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:hashthemes:total:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Krzysztof Zając
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Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.