Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 12.7
- Affected Plugin
- MihanPanel – User Login , Registration and Dashboard
- Affected Version
<= 12.4- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2024-31389
At a glance
CVE-2024-31389 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the MihanPanel WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 12.4. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 12.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Majed Refaea.
Vulnerability Overview
The MihanPanel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to 12.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the delete and delete_all cases. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete IP addresses from the blocked list via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in MihanPanel <= 12.4 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For MihanPanel the fix is 12.7: builds <= 12.4 are affected, anything from 12.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 12.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to MihanPanel: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: MihanPanel 12.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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