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Advanced Cron Manager vulnerabilities
Advanced Cron Manager has 2 known vulnerabilities in this database. The most recent published record is dated 15 May 2025.
- Known vulnerabilities
- 2
- Active installs
- 30,000+
- Latest version
- 2.7.0
- Last updated
- 10 Mar 2026
- Most recent
- 15 May 2025
Find it in your WordPress dashboard under Plugins. Severity is based on the CVSS score published with the CVE where one is available.
| Vulnerability | Severity | Affected | Fix | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2024-4004 | Low 3.5 | Before 2.5.7 | Fixed in 2.5.7 | 15 May 2025 |
| Broken access control CVE-2021-25084 | Medium 4.3 | Before 2.5.3 | Fixed in 2.5.3 | 7 Feb 2022 |
Read the published descriptions
- CVE-2024-4004, 15 May 2025
- The Advanced Cron Manager WordPress plugin before 2.5.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup) CVE record
- CVE-2021-25084, 7 Feb 2022
- The Advanced Cron Manager WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 and Advanced Cron Manager Pro WordPress plugin before 2.5.3 do not have authorisation checks in some of their AJAX actions, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call them and add or remove events as well as schedules for example CVE record
What to do if you run Advanced Cron Manager
If you run Advanced Cron Manager, open WordPress and check the installed version in Plugins. Compare it with the affected versions in the vulnerability record. If a fixed version is available, take a current backup and update to that version or the latest supported release.
If no fixed version exists, consider disabling and removing the plugin or replacing it with a maintained alternative. After dealing with the affected software, check administrator users, unexpected file changes, redirects, unfamiliar pages and security logs for signs that the site may already have been altered.
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