CVE-2021-24997 Scanner.
WordPress Guppy <=1.1 - Information Disclosure
Free and read-only. Scan only sites you own or are allowed to test.
What This Check Does.
Read-only
It only asks your site for public pages, the way a browser would. Nothing is changed, uploaded or stored.
Up to 1 request
A small, fixed number of requests, so the check is quick and will not load your site.
Looks for CVE-2021-24997
It looks for the specific sign of this one vulnerability and ends with a clear answer: vulnerable, not vulnerable, or could not be determined.
About CVE-2021-24997. What It Means.
WordPress Guppy plugin through 1.1 is susceptible to an API disclosure vulnerability. This can allow an attacker to obtain all user IDs and then use them to make API requests to get messages sent between users and/or send messages posing as one user to another.
FAQ
Common Questions.
WordPress Guppy <=1.1 - Information Disclosure. WordPress Guppy plugin through 1.1 is susceptible to an API disclosure vulnerability. This can allow an attacker to obtain all user IDs and then use them to make API requests to get messages sent between users and/or send messages posing as one user to another.
Atlas sends up to 1 read-only request to your site and looks for the specific sign of CVE-2021-24997 in WP Guppy. Nothing is changed, uploaded or stored on your site.
CVE-2021-24997 is not on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list at the time of writing, but it is still worth fixing. Its CVSS score is 6.5.
Yes. The check only reads public pages, the same way a browser or a search engine would. Scan only sites you own or are allowed to test.
It means no sign of CVE-2021-24997 was found by this read-only check. It does not prove the site is free of other weaknesses.
Update WP Guppy to the latest version from the vendor, or follow the vendor's advice to switch off the affected feature. The vendor links and details are in the CVE-2021-24997 briefing linked on this page.
Scan only sites you own or have written permission to test. A result of Not Vulnerable means this read-only check found no sign of CVE-2021-24997; it is not a guarantee that the site is secure.