CVE-2024-1653: Frenify Categorify

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Categorify plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the categorifyAjaxUpdateFolderPosition in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the folder position of categories as well as update the metadata of other taxonomies.

Affected products

• Frenify Categorify: before 1.0.7.5 (fixed in 1.0.7.5)

Published 2024-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.