CVE-2024-8121: Wpextended Wp Extended

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

The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.

Affected products

• Wpextended Wp Extended: before 3.0.9 (fixed in 3.0.9)

Published 2024-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.