Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Jan 9, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-12616

Description

The Bitly's WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on several AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update and retrieve plugin settings.

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Affected products

WordPress/Bitly's WordPress Pluginllm-create
Range: <=2.7.3
WordPress/Bitlywp-canonicalize

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-bitly/trunk/includes/class-wp-bitly-auth.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3272740/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1312c34-45c6-41e5-b6fc-a45ac2c8a0canvd

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