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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2024-8121 EUVD-2024-48951GHSA-9299-82cr-w458

The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended <= 3.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Admin Username Change

Published Sep 4, 2024 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
wpextended The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended ≤ 3.0.8 —

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