CVE-2024-6621 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wprss_activate_feed_source' and 'wprss_pause_feed_source' functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.23.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate or pause existing RSS feeds.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00171.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Rebelcode	Rss Aggregator

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:rebelcode:rss_aggregator:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/includes/feed-states.php#L12
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/includes/feed-states.php#L28
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/includes/feed-states.php?rev=3118231
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8e37331b-0b75-41ee-b390-532efd674cc1?source=cve

History

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-862

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Rebelcode Rebelcode rss Aggregator
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:rebelcode:rss_aggregator::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Rebelcode Rebelcode rss Aggregator

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-07-16T11:00:58.101Z

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:06:17.989Z

Reserved: 2024-07-09T15:57:47.785Z

Link: CVE-2024-6621

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:41:04.059Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-07-16T11:15:10.357

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:22:24.693

Link: CVE-2024-6621

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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