CVE-2024-31211 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

WordPress is an open publishing platform for the Web. Unserialization of instances of the `WP_HTML_Token` class allows for code execution via its `__destruct()` magic method. This issue was fixed in WordPress 6.4.2 on December 6th, 2023. Versions prior to 6.4.0 are not affected.

Published: 2024-04-04

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: 39.7% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

WordPress

wordpress-develop

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`>= 6.4.0 < 6.4.2`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

Vendor	Product	Confidence	Versions
Wordpress	Wordpress	—	—

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.39711.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-m257-q4m5-j653

History

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress::::::::

Subscriptions

Wordpress Wordpress

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-04-04T23:00:17.782Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:46:04.743Z

Reserved: 2024-03-29T14:16:31.900Z

Link: CVE-2024-31211

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-05-23T19:01:22.177Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-04-04T23:15:16.333

Modified: 2026-01-02T20:12:03.303

Link: CVE-2024-31211

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T22:00:54Z

Weaknesses

CWE-502

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