🛡️ CVE-2024-9224
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Hello World plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Reading in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 via the hello_world_lyric() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-10-01
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-04-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
hello-world 2.2.0

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