High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 30, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-12129
CVE-2024-12129
Description
The Royal Core plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'royal_restore_backup' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
Affected products
3<=2.9.2+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=2.9.2
- (no CPE)
- Royal-Flush/Royal Corev5Range: 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
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