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title: "CVE-2024-11972: Hunk Companion < 1.9.0 - Unauthenticated… | CubePath"
description: "The Hunk Companion WordPress plugin before 1.9.0 does not correctly authorize some REST API endpoints, allowing unauthenticated requests to install…"
language: en
source: https://cubepath.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11972
---

# CVE-2024-11972: Hunk Companion < 1.9.0 - Unauthenticated… | CubePath

## Description

The Hunk Companion WordPress plugin before 1.9.0 does not correctly authorize some REST API endpoints, allowing unauthenticated requests to install and activate arbitrary Hunk Companion WordPress plugin before 1.9.0 from the WordPress.org repo, including vulnerable Hunk Companion WordPress plugin before 1.9.0 that have been closed.

Official description from the CVE record, published by WPScan. Copyright © 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. See [/security/cve/legal](https://cubepath.com/security/cve/legal) for the CVE license. [View the record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11972)

## Key data

### CVSS 3.1 Critical 9.8

Score published by CISA-ADP in the CVE record.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

| Metric                 | Value     | What it means                                                                       |
| ---------------------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Attack vector          | Network   | The vulnerable component can be reached over a network, possibly from the Internet. |
| Attack complexity      | Low       | No special conditions are needed. The attack can be repeated at will.               |
| Privileges required    | None      | No account or privileges are needed.                                                |
| User interaction       | None      | No action from any user is needed.                                                  |
| Scope                  | Unchanged | The impact stays within the vulnerable component.                                   |
| Confidentiality impact | High      | Serious or total effect on the secrecy of data.                                     |
| Integrity impact       | High      | Serious or total effect on the trustworthiness of data.                             |
| Availability impact    | High      | Serious or total effect on availability.                                            |

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### EPSS

Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST: an estimate of the probability that exploitation activity will be observed in the next 30 days.

Score

0.59055 (59.1% probability)

Percentile

99.1%

Scores of

Nov 10, 2026

Model

v2026.06.15

### CISA assessment as of Dec 31, 2024

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) decision points added by CISA.

Automatable

yes

Technical impact

total

### Weakness (CWE)

CWE catalog version 5.0.

CWE names: Copyright © 2006-2026, The MITRE Corporation. See [/security/cve/legal](https://cubepath.com/security/cve/legal) for the CWE license.

- [CWE-862](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html) Missing Authorization

## Affected products

Products listed in the CVE record, as the CNA published them.

- Unknown Hunk Companion

  - affected: before 1.9.0

## References

Links listed in the CVE record. They lead to other sites, which CubePath does not control.

- [wpscan.com/vulnerability/4963560b-e4ae-451d-8f94-482779c415…](https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4963560b-e4ae-451d-8f94-482779c415e4/) exploit vdb-entry technical-description

## Timeline

1. ID reserved Nov 28, 2024
2. Record published Dec 31, 2024
3. Record last updated Dec 31, 2024

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