Security Advisory

CVE-2024-9224

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-10-01 08:30:13
Last updated 2026-04-08 16:44:38
Assigner Wordfence
CVSS score 6.5
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Hello World plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Reading in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 via the hello_world_lyric() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.