CVE-2021-24230: Patreon WordPress

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Jetpack Scan team identified a Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in the Patreon WordPress plugin before 1.7.0, allowing attackers to make a logged in user overwrite or create arbitrary user metadata on the victim’s account once visited. If exploited, this bug can be used to overwrite the “wp_capabilities” meta, which contains the affected user account’s roles and privileges. Doing this would essentially lock them out of the site, blocking them from accessing paid content.

Affected products

• Patreon Patreon WordPress: before 1.7.0 (fixed in 1.7.0)

Published 2021-04-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.