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Solid Security Basic <= 9.0.0 — Unauthenticated Login Page Disclosure

88163d55-ab97-4697-a25b-d54615e2a843Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤9.0.0Update to 9.0.1 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection better-wp-security

  1. Affected≤ 9.0.0
  2. Patched in9.0.1

Update to 9.0.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 9.0.0. Version 9.0.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 9.0.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Naveen Muthusamy.

The Solid Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection mechanism bypass in all versions up to, and including, 9.0.0. This is due to the plugin disclosing the login path when comments are enabled and registration is required. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to discover the login page path and bypass the intended functionality of the security mechanism.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.3IP Address Spoofing to Denial of Service
≤9.3.1Update to 9.3.2
CVE-2022-44593
Medium4.7Open Redirection via redirect_to_https
≤8.1.4Update to 8.1.5
CVE-2023-28786
Medium5.3Hidden Login Bypass
<7.9.1Update to 7.9.1
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High7.5Broken Password Mechanism
≤7.6.1Update to 7.7.0
CVE-2020-36176
High7.2Authenticated SQL Injection
<7.0.3Update to 7.0.3
CVE-2018-12636

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. 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.

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