NitroPack <= 1.16.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

7.3
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-43922
CVSS 7.3 (High)
Publicly Published August 26, 2024
Last Updated September 4, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad - Awesome Motive, Inc.

Description

The The NitroPack – Caching & Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS & JS, Lazy load Images and CDN plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.7. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

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Vulnerability Details for NitroPack – Performance, Page Speed & Cache Plugin for Core Web Vitals, CDN & Image Optimization

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug nitropack (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.16.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.16.7
Patched Version
  • 1.16.8

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# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 NitroPack <= 1.19.3 - Missing Authorization CVE-2026-39669 5.3 Steven Julian February 18, 2026
2 NitroPack <= 1.18.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Settings Update via nitropack_set_compression_ajax Function CVE-2025-8778 4.3 Peter Thaleikis September 9, 2025
3 NitroPack <= 1.17.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Options Update CVE-2024-11848 8.1 Sean Murphy January 14, 2025
4 NitroPack <= 1.17.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Transient Update CVE-2024-11851 4.3 Sean Murphy January 14, 2025
5 NitroPack <= 1.10.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2023-52121 4.3 December 28, 2023
6 NitroPack <= 1.9.2 - Missing Authorization via multiple AJAX functions 6.3 November 7, 2023

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