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Critical · 10.0 Public exploit CVE-2024-6297 EUVD-2024-47415GHSA-8242-gggm-vvxx

Several WordPress.org Plugins <= Various Versions - Injected Backdoor

Published Jun 25, 2024 · Updated Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence

Vendor: blazeretail Vendor: pedrogusmao02 Vendor: stuartobrien Vendor: ThemeREX Vendor: Warfare Plugins Product: BLAZE Retail Widget Product: Contact Form 7 Multi-Step Addon Product: Simply Show Hooks Product: Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare Product: Wrapper Link Elementor

Description

Several plugins for WordPress hosted on WordPress.org have been compromised and injected with malicious PHP scripts. A malicious threat actor compromised the source code of various plugins and injected code that exfiltrates database credentials and is used to create new, malicious, administrator users and send that data back to a server. Currently, not all plugins have been patched and we strongly recommend uninstalling the plugins for the time being and running a complete malware scan.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
warfareplugins Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare 4.4.6.4 – ≤ 4.4.7.1 —
themerex Contact Form 7 Multi-Step Addon 1.0.4 – ≤ 1.0.5 —
stuartobrien Simply Show Hooks 1.2.1 – ≤ 1.2.2 —
pedrogusmao02 Wrapper Link Elementor 1.0.2 – ≤ 1.0.3 —
blazeretail BLAZE Retail Widget 2.2.5 – ≤ 2.5.2 —

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.

GitHub 1 repository

  • Sudo-WP/sudowp-hooks-visualizer ★ 2 · Jan 10, 2026

    A security-hardened fork of "Simply Show Hooks". Replaces the compromised original (CVE-2024-6297) and patches unlisted Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

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

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