CVE-2024-11816: Wpextended Ultimate WordPress Toolkit

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in version 3.0.11. This is due to a missing capability check on the 'wpext_handle_snippet_update' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute code on the server providing an admin has created at least one code snippet.

Affected products

  • Wpextended Ultimate WordPress Toolkit: before 3.0.12 (fixed in 3.0.12)

Published 2025-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.