CVE-2024-31290
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedImproper Privilege Management vulnerability in CodeRevolution Demo My WordPress allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Demo My WordPress: from n/a through 1.0.9.1.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceImproper Privilege Management vulnerability in the CodeRevolution 'Demo My WordPress' plugin allows authenticated users to escalate their privileges beyond what their role should permit, potentially achieving administrator-level access. The CVSS 9.8 score indicates trivial exploitability with no user interaction required.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify Demo My WordPress plugin is installedIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and search for 'Demo My WordPress' by CodeRevolution, or inspect the wp-content/plugins/ directory for a folder named 'demo-my-wordpress' or similarAffected if The plugin is present in the WordPress installation
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Confirm plugin is activeIn Plugins > Installed Plugins, check if Demo My WordPress has an 'Active' status under the plugin nameAffected if Plugin is activated - the vulnerability only affects active installations
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Identify installed plugin versionClick on the plugin name in the WordPress plugins list to view details, or open the main plugin PHP file (usually demo-my-wordpress.php) and locate the 'Version:' field in the file header commentAffected if Version is older than the patched version released for CVE-2024-31290 - compare against the vendor's security advisory
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Audit user accounts for privilege escalationIn WordPress admin, go to Users > All Users and examine each account's role. Pay special attention to any administrator accounts you did not create, or users whose role does not match your recordsAffected if Unexpected administrator accounts exist, or accounts have capabilities beyond what their assigned role should permit
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Inspect user capability metadataQuery the wp_usermeta table (or use a user management plugin) to review wp_capabilities values for all users. Check for users with 'administrator' capability who should have lower privilegesAffected if Users have administrator-level capabilities (a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}) but are not intended admins
Your environment is affected if the Demo My WordPress plugin is active and your WordPress users have roles or capabilities that exceed what you assigned, indicating privilege escalation has occurred.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate the Demo My WordPress plugin to the latest patched version. If no patch is available, disable the plugin immediately and review user role assignments for unauthorized privilege escalation.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-31290 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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