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Critical · 9.8 Scanner template Public exploit CVE-2024-11972 EUVD-2024-34370GHSA-pp53-3m4v-vvmw

Hunk Companion < 1.9.0 - Unauthenticated Plugin Installation

Published Dec 31, 2024 · Updated Dec 31, 2024 · Assigned by WPScan

Category: Web / CMS

Description

The Hunk Companion WordPress plugin before 1.9.0 does not correctly authorize some REST API endpoints, allowing unauthenticated requests to install and activate arbitrary Hunk Companion WordPress plugin before 1.9.0 from the WordPress.org repo, including vulnerable Hunk Companion WordPress plugin before 1.9.0 that have been closed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Hunk Companion < 1.9.0 1.9.0

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

GitHub 2 repositories

  • RonF98/CVE-2024-11972-POC ★ 1 · Jan 13, 2025

    CVE-2024-11972 in Hunk Companion <1.9.0 allows unauthenticated attackers to exploit insecure REST API endpoints and install vulnerable plugins, risking RCE, SQLi, XSS, and backdoors.

  • Nxploited/CVE-2024-11972-PoC ★ 0 · Jan 29, 2025

    Hunk Companion < 1.9.0 - Unauthenticated Plugin Installation

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Automated scanner template

A ready-made Nuclei template detects this vulnerability automatically. Vulnerabilities with public scanner templates are typically probed across the internet soon after the template appears — exposed systems should be patched first.

Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.

References