CVE-2024-2172 (GCVE-0-2024-2172)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-13 15:26
Modified
2026-04-08 16:57
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-304 - Missing Critical Step in Authentication
Summary
The Malware Scanner plugin and the Web Application Firewall plugin for WordPress (both by MiniOrange) are vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the mo_wpns_init() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.2 (for Malware Scanner) and 2.1.1 (for Web Application Firewall). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cyberlord92 | Web Application Firewall – website security |
Version: 0 ≤ 2.1.1 |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
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