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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: mycred: CVE-2024-8658: Missing Authorization

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 24, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce – Give Points, Ranks, Badges, Cashback, WooCommerce rewards, and WooCommerce credits for Gamification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the mycred_update_database() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upgrade an out of date database.

Solution

mycred-plugin-cve-2024-8658
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