CVE-2024-28000: Unauthenticated privilege escalation to administrator via weak hash in the crawler

critical KEV Affects litespeed-cache (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; CVE published 2024; listed on CISA KEV.

Unauthenticated privilege escalation to administrator via weak hash in the crawler

Package: litespeed-cache (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions: >=1.9 and <6.4
Fixed in: 6.4
Severity: critical CVSS 9.8
Exploitation: KEV listed by CISA as actively exploited · EPSS 68% (99.3th percentile)

References

https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/104badec-6e6e-44bb-936b-d135dd80890d

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