CVE-2024-13423: Silkalns Sparkling

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Sparkling theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin activation/deactivation due to a missing capability check on the 'sparkling_activate_plugin' and 'sparkling_deactivate_plugin' functions in versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to activate/deactivate arbitrary plugins.

Affected products

• Silkalns Sparkling: up to and including 2.4.9

Published 2025-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.