CVE-2024-9192: Pressaholic WordPress Video Robot

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WordPress Video Robot - The Ultimate Video Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to insufficient validation on user meta that can be updated in the wpvr_rate_request_result() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.20.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update their user meta on a WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update their capabilities to that of an administrator.

Affected products

• Pressaholic WordPress Video Robot: up to and including 1.20.0
• Pressaholic WordPress Video Robot - The Ultimate Video Importer: up to and including 1.20.0

Published 2024-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.