CVE-2024-3961
ConvertKit <= 2.4.9 - Missing Authorization
The ConvertKit – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Subscribers and Landing Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tag_subscriber function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to subscribe users to tags. Financial damages may occur to site owners if their API quota is exceeded.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
5.3
ConvertKit <= 2.4.9 - Missing Authorization
The ConvertKit – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Subscribers and Landing Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tag_subscriber function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to subscribe users to tags. Financial damages may occur to site owners if their API quota is exceeded.
- Record
CVE-2024-3961- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2024-32527
5.3
The ConvertKit – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Subscribers and Landing Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tag_subscriber function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to subscribe users to tags. Financial damages may occur to site owners if their API quota is exceeded.
- Record
EUVD-2024-32527- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-x26g-933q-fggm
5.3
The ConvertKit – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Subscribers and Landing Pages plugin for...
The ConvertKit – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Subscribers and Landing Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tag_subscriber function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to subscribe users to tags. Financial damages may occur to site owners if their API quota is exceeded.
- Record
GHSA-x26g-933q-fggm- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
5.3
The ConvertKit – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Subscribers and Landing Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tag_subscriber function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to subscribe users to tags. Financial damages may occur to site owners if their API quota is exceeded.
- Record
CVE-2024-3961- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2024-3961 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) in Convertkit - Email Marketing\, Email Newsletter And Landing Pages, published June 21, 2024. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.37%, the 31st percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79d828b8-aea2-4705-ae23-ac70133a6c3e?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3104932%40convertkit%2Ftrunk&old=3085997%40convertkit%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3961
github.com/advisories/GHSA-x26g-933q-fggm