CVE-2024-9989 Information

Description

The Crypto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to and including 2.15. This is due a to limited arbitrary method call to ‘crypto_connect_ajax_process::log_in’ function in the ‘crypto_connect_ajax_process’ function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user on the site such as an administrator if they have access to the username.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e21bd924-1d96-4371-972a-5c99d67261cc?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crypto/tags/2.10/includes/class-crypto_connect_ajax_register.php#L33 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crypto/tags/2.10/includes/class-crypto_connect_ajax_register.php#L138

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8