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WordPress Plugin: hummingbird-performance: CVE-2024-43118: Missing Authorization

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 7, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Hummingbird plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the clear_module_cache() function in versions up to, and including, 3.9.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to clear module cache.

Solution

hummingbird-performance-plugin-cve-2024-43118
Title
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