CVE-2024-45232 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.3) CWE-639 vulnerability in in2code/powermail. A fix is available for in2code/powermail — see the affected versions and patch details below.
"powermail" (powermail) Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-45232.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
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Description
An issue was discovered in powermail extension through 12.3.5 for TYPO3. It fails to validate the mail parameter of the confirmationAction, resulting in Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR). An unauthenticated attacker can use this to display the user-submitted data of all forms persisted by the extension. This can only be exploited when the extension is configured to save submitted form data to the database (plugin.tx_powermail.settings.db.enable=1), which however is the default setting of the extension. The fixed versions are 7.5.0, 8.5.0, 10.9.0, and 12.4.0.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | in2code/powermail | ≥ 11.0.0&&< 12.4.0 | 12.4.0composer require in2code/powermail:^12.4.0 |
| 🐘Packagist | in2code/powermail | ≥ 9.0.0&&< 10.9.0 | 10.9.0composer require in2code/powermail:^10.9.0 |
| 🐘Packagist | in2code/powermail | ≥ 8.0.0&&< 8.5.0 | 8.5.0composer require in2code/powermail:^8.5.0 |
| 🐘Packagist | in2code/powermail | all versions | 7.5.0composer require in2code/powermail:^7.5.0 |
Affected Products
powermailin2codeDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for in2code/powermail, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update in2code/powermail to 12.4.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-45232 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-45232 in your dependencies?
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