WP Hardening – Fix Your WordPress Security <= 1.2.6 - Unauthenticated Security Feature Bypass to Username Enumeration

2024-09-17 00:00

Felipe Caon

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.2.7

Affected PluginWP Hardening (discontinued)

Affected Version<= 1.2.6

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-6641

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Vulnerability Overview

The WP Hardening – Fix Your WordPress Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Security Feature Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.6. This is due to use of an incorrect regular expression within the "Stop User Enumeration" feature. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass intended security restrictions and expose site usernames.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.2.7, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-185 (Incorrect Regular Expression) The product specifies a regular expression in a way that causes data to be improperly matched or compared.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6641 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a52a278-1729-4027-8a00-e9804fa6698b

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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