Description
The Categorify plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the categorifyAjaxDeleteCategory function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete categories.
Published: 2024-02-27
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-17385 The Categorify plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the categorifyAjaxDeleteCategory function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete categories.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Missing Authorization in categorifyAjaxDeleteCategory

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Frenify
Frenify categorify
Weaknesses CWE-862
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:frenify:categorify:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Frenify
Frenify categorify

Subscriptions

Frenify Categorify
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:21:08.816Z

Reserved: 2024-02-19T23:32:17.950Z

Link: CVE-2024-1649

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:48:21.797Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-27T11:15:08.133

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:20:48.840

Link: CVE-2024-1649

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses