CVE-2024-5468 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WordPress Header Builder Plugin – Pearl plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized site option deletion due to a missing validation and capability checks on the stm_hb_delete() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary options that can be used to perform a denial of service attack on a site.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00122.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pearl-header-builder/tags/1.3.7/includes/helpers.php#L304
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2e770e0-1a39-4946-838b-4fd1f1dea1c8?source=cve

History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-862

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-06-12T08:33:19.554Z

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:20:16.737Z

Reserved: 2024-05-29T12:28:42.067Z

Link: CVE-2024-5468

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-06-12T13:15:59.777Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-06-12T09:15:21.910

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:21:56.550

Link: CVE-2024-5468

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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