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Slick Popup <= 1.7.1 — Privilege Escalation

CVE-2019-15867Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.7.2Update to 1.7.2 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Slick Popup: Contact Form 7 Popup Plugin slick-popup

  1. Affected< 1.7.2
  2. Patched in1.7.2

Update to 1.7.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.7.2. Version 1.7.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Slick Popup: Contact Form 7 Popup Plugin.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.7.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Slick Popup: Contact Form 7 Popup Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Mikey Veenstra.

The slick-popup plugin before 1.7.2 for WordPress has a hardcoded OmakPass13# password for the slickpopupteam account, after a Subscriber calls a certain AJAX action.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Slick Popup: Contact Form 7 Popup Plugin

All 2
More vulnerabilities in Slick Popup: Contact Form 7 Popup Plugin
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
<1.7.15Update to 1.7.15
CVE-2023-46824

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
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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