vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: w3speedster-wp: CVE-2024-8512: Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 29, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The W3SPEEDSTER plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 7.26 via the 'script' parameter of the hookBeforeStartOptimization() function. This is due to the plugin passing user supplied input to eval(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to execute code on the server.

Solution

w3speedster-wp-plugin-cve-2024-8512
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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