🛡️ CVE-2024-56525

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-276 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In Public Knowledge Project (PKP) OJS, OMP, and OPS before 3.3.0.21 and 3.4.x before 3.4.0.8, an XXE attack by the Journal Editor Role can create a new role as super admin in the journal context, and insert a backdoor plugin, by uploading a crafted XML document as a User XML Plugin.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-56525 is classified as CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions. Files or resources are created with permissions that are broader than they need to be.

Affected software

CVE-2024-56525 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 24 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

openjournaltheme.com

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-276
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-02-24
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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