🛡️ CVE-2024-7568 — favicon-generator

🔴 CVSS 9.6 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-352 NVD
9.6
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Favicon Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the output_sub_admin_page_0 function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files on the server via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. The plugin author deleted the functionality of the plugin to patch this issue and close the plugin, we recommend seeking an alternative to this plugin. CVE-2024-7864 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

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. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-7568 is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). A state-changing request is accepted without proof it was intended, so another site can trigger it using the victim's session.

Affected software

CVE-2024-7568 is recorded against 1 package.

  • favicon-generator (fixed in 2.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 August 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-352
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-24
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
favicon-generator — 2.1

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