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CVE-2024-38706: WordPress HT Mega plugin <= 2.5.7 - JSON Path Traversal vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.70% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 53.5% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: DevItems HT Mega 2.5.8.
Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 6.5, NVD 8.8.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to DevItems HT Mega 2.5.8 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Path Traversal: '.../...//' vulnerability in DevItems HT Mega ht-mega-for-elementor.This issue affects HT Mega: from n/a through <= 2.5.7.

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Path traversal

Published: Jul 12, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.7% · 53th percentile
CWE: CWE-35

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.7%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 8.8
CNA · Patchstack: 6.5; 2.3 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
hasthemes	ht mega	cpe:2.3:a:hasthemes:ht_mega

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

hasthemes ht megabefore 2.5.8

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

DevItems HT Mega
- up to and including 2.5.7affectedfixed in 2.5.8

Same product

hasthemes: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2023-37999WordPress HT Mega Absolute Addons for Elementor plugin <= 2.2.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation vulnerability
40Plan
CVE-2023-51529WordPress HT Mega Plugin <= 2.3.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
35Monitor
CVE-2023-6214HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor <= 2.4.6 - Sensitive Information Exposure via purchased_products
30Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-5173Jun 25, 2024 · HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor <= 2.5.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Video Player Widget Settings
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-5215Jun 26, 2024 · HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor <= 2.5.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Multiple Widgets
21Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-8910Sep 25, 2024 · HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor <= 2.6.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via template_id
17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
DevItems HT Mega	2.5.8	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

Rafie MuhammadPatchstackfinder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).