CVE-2024-6420

Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall <= 5.2.01 - Login Page Disclosure

2024-07-02 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 5.2.02
Affected Plugin: Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall
Affected Version: <= 5.2.01
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2024-6420

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At a glance

CVE-2024-6420 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Hide My WP Ghost WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.2.01. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.2.02; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2024, reported by Juan Pablo Gomez Postigo.

Vulnerability Overview

The Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Login Page Disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.01. This is due to the plugin not prevent redirects to the login page when gravity forms is installed. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to find the login page when it has been hidden.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in Hide My WP Ghost <= 5.2.01 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Hide My WP Ghost the fix is 5.2.02: builds <= 5.2.01 are affected, anything from 5.2.02 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.2.02, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Hide My WP Ghost 5.2.02 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6420 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8445f318-ef4e-45c5-be9b-6080833c3bb6 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6420

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall

CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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