High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 8, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-11816

Description

The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in version 3.0.11. This is due to a missing capability check on the 'wpext_handle_snippet_update' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute code on the server providing an admin has created at least one code snippet.

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Affected products

WordPress/The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extendedllm-fuzzy
Range: <=3.0.11
wpextended/The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extendedv5
Range: 0
WordPress/Wp Extendedwp-canonicalize

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3ce53e5-8666-4227-83d3-58f35db0ce68nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpextended/trunk/includes/modules/core_extensions/wpext_snippets/wpext_snippets.phpnvdProduct

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