Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2024-1653

Description

The Categorify plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the categorifyAjaxUpdateFolderPosition in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the folder position of categories as well as update the metadata of other taxonomies.

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Affected products

Frenify/Categorify
cpe:2.3:a:frenify:categorify:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <1.0.7.5
WordPress/Categorifyllm-fuzzy
Range: <=1.0.7.4
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/categorify

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3034410/categorifynvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45badd20-1ba8-44be-8a7c-2ce21261e208nvdThird Party Advisory

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