CVE-2024-9593
Time Clock <= 1.2.2 & Time Clock Pro <= 1.1.4 - Unauthenticated (Limited) Remote Code Execution
- 8.3HighCVSS base score
- 12.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Time Clock plugin and Time Clock Pro plugin for WordPress are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in versions up to, and including, 1.2.2 (for Time Clock) and 1.1.4 (for Time Clock Pro) via the 'etimeclockwp_load_function_callback' function. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server. The invoked function's parameters cannot be specified.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template for it.
Show the exploits1
Nuclei templates1 template
- Time Clock <= 1.2.2 & Time Clock Pro <= 1.1.4 - Remote Code Execution (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-9593.yamlSeverity high
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.4% · top 3.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.3.
Affected products
Scott Paterson · Time Clock Pro
- affected ≤ 1.1.4
scottpaterson · Time Clock – A WordPress Employee & Volunteer Time Clock Plugin
- affected ≤ 1.2.2
References
References3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/247e599a-74e2-41d5-a1ba-978a807e6544?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/time-clock/tags/1.2.2/includes/admin/ajax_functions_admin.php#L58 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3171046/time-clock#file40 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-50045 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-9593)Record last updated .