Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 4, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-8121
CVE-2024-8121
Description
The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.
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Affected products
3- Range: <=3.0.8
- wpextended/The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extendedv5Range: 0
Patches
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References
3- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3d08ac9-22f7-45f4-9896-05b90f5fce64nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpextended/trunk/includes/modules/core_extensions/wpext_block_user_name_admin/wpext_block_user_name_admin.phpnvdProduct
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