🛡️ CVE-2024-9522 — wp-users-masquerade

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-288 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

The WP Users Masquerade plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to incorrect authentication and capability checking in the 'ajax_masq_login' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level 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-2024-9522 is classified as CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path. A secondary route into the application skips the authentication that the primary route enforces.

Affected software

CVE-2024-9522 is recorded against 1 package.

  • wp-users-masquerade (fixed in 2.0.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 October 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-288
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-10-10
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wp-users-masquerade — 2.0.0

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