Vulnerability database
Every flaw the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency (CISA) has confirmed attackers are using, plus the new WordPress plugin and theme bugs published each day, sorted by what they mean for a small business. We refresh it twice a day. If you see something your website or office runs, tell us.
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Mar 7, 2025Post Meta Data Manager: Multisite privilege escalationCVE-2024-13835 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceHigh 7.2
The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to multisite privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.4. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying the existence of a multisite installation prior to allowing user meta to be added/modified. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to gain elevated privileges on subsites that would otherwise be inaccessible.
- Product
- Post Meta Data Manager
- Affected
- up to 1.4.4
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.4.4. Update Post Meta Data Manager to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordwordpress.orgwordfence.com
Jul 2, 2024Post Meta Data Manager: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-6264 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘$meta_key’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- Product
- Post Meta Data Manager
- Affected
- up to 1.2.3
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.2.3. Update Post Meta Data Manager to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Nov 21, 2023Post Meta Data Manager: Cross-Site Request ForgeryCVE-2023-5776 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.3
The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the pmdm_wp_ajax_delete_meta, pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta, and pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary user, term, and post meta via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
- Product
- Post Meta Data Manager
- Affected
- up to 1.2.1
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.2.1. Update Post Meta Data Manager to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.svn.wordpress.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Oct 28, 2023Post Meta Data Manager: Unauthorized modification of dataCVE-2023-5426 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceHigh 7.5
The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta, pmdm_wp_delete_term_meta, and pmdm_wp_ajax_delete_meta functions in versions up to, and including, 1.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete user, term, and post meta belonging to arbitrary users.
- Product
- Post Meta Data Manager
- Affected
- up to 1.2.0
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.2.0. Update Post Meta Data Manager to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgwordfence.com
Oct 28, 2023Post Meta Data Manager: Unauthorized modification of dataCVE-2023-5425 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceHigh 8.8
The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pmdm_wp_change_user_meta and pmdm_wp_change_post_meta functions in versions up to, and including, 1.2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to gain elevated (e.g., administrator) privileges.
- Product
- Post Meta Data Manager
- Affected
- up to 1.2.0
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.2.0. Update Post Meta Data Manager to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgwordfence.com
Where this comes from: the exploited list is CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Everything else is the whole National Vulnerability Database, where each record is published by the team that found the bug (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan, the vendors themselves and others); we show who. Exploit odds are FIRST’s EPSS, updated daily. Titles and categories are ours, so check the linked record before acting on a detail. For a write-up of the big ones, see our advisories. Every vendor, and every WordPress plugin and theme with a recorded flaw, also has its own page. All of it is free to reuse as JSON, CSV or RSS.
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