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Vulnerability · CVE-2024-9234

Wpmet gutenkit Missing Authorization

Published Apr 23, 2025 · catalog updated Apr 23, 2025 · GutenKit Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor Plugin for WordPress

Patch now

CVE-2024-9234 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm GutenKit Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor Plugin for WordPress against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
10.45%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor GutenKit Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor Plugin for WordPress

The GutenKit – Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the install_and_activate_plugin_from_external() function (install-active-plugin REST API endpoint) in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install and activate arbitrary plugins, or utilize the functionality to upload arbitrary files spoofed like plugins. Initial-access exploit intelligence.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor GutenKit Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor Plugin for WordPressversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2024-9234

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2024-9234 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm GutenKit Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor Plugin for WordPress against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 10.45%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

WordPress security

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Apr 23, 2025 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    The GutenKit – Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the install_and_activate_plugin_from_external() function (install-active-plugin REST API endpoint) in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install and act

  2. Apr 23, 2025 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2024-9234

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2024-9234

    30-day exploitation probability 10.4%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2024-9234

    The GutenKit – Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the install_and_activate_plugin_from_external() function (install-active-plugin REST API endpoi

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.