wpCentral <= 1.4.7 — Privilege Escalation
4b06792e-0b4e-4c1e-b7e9-8cbbae343298Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <1.4.8Update to 1.4.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
wpCentral wp-central
- Affected< 1.4.8
- Patched in1.4.8
Update to 1.4.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 1.4.8. Version 1.4.8 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under wpCentral.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.4.8, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch wpCentral to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to WebARX Security.
The wpCentral for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.4.7 due to missing authorization checks and validation on the wpc_fetch_authkey() and my_wpc_signon() functions. This makes it possible for authenticated users, with low-level privileges such as a subscriber, to log in as a site administrator.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.