CVE-2022-1589

Change WP Admin Login <= 1.0.9 - Missing Authorization Checks

2022-05-09 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.1.0
Affected Plugin: All In One Login — Login Page Security and Customization for WordPress with Google reCAPTCHA, Social Login, Temporary Login, 2FA, and more.
Affected Version: <= 1.0.9
CVSS: 5.4Medium
Weakness type: CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
CVE: CVE-2022-1589

View all All In One Login — Login Page Security and Customization for WordPress with Google reCAPTCHA, Social Login, Temporary Login, 2FA, and more. vulnerabilities

At a glance

CVE-2022-1589 is a medium-severity Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in the All In One Login WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.9. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; high integrity impact). The root cause is a missing authorization check on a reachable function. The issue is fixed in version 1.1.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2022, reported by Daniel Ruf.

Vulnerability Overview

The Change WP Admin Login WordPress plugin before 1.1.0 does not properly check for authorisation and is also missing CSRF check when updating its settings, which could allow unauthenticated users to change the settings. The attacked could also be performed via a CSRF vector

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Reaching this weakness in All In One Login <= 1.0.9 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Incorrect authorization means a permission check exists but evaluates the wrong thing, so it passes for callers it was meant to stop.

The action runs for users the code intended to exclude, with the same effect as having no check at all. For All In One Login the fix is 1.1.0: builds <= 1.0.9 are affected, anything from 1.1.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.1.0, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: All In One Login 1.1.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1589 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/616c8ab8-3200-41fb-9d31-5d36873742cb https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1589

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in All In One Login — Login Page Security and Customization for WordPress with Google reCAPTCHA, Social Login, Temporary Login, 2FA, and more.

CVSS Vector

5.4

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityHigh
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityNone

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