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InfiniteWP Client <= 1.9.4.4 — Authentication Bypass

CVE-2020-8772Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.9.4.4Update to 1.9.4.5 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

InfiniteWP Client iwp-client

  1. Affected≤ 1.9.4.4
  2. Patched in1.9.4.5

Update to 1.9.4.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.9.4.4. Version 1.9.4.5 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under InfiniteWP Client.
  • 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 1.9.4.5, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch InfiniteWP Client to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to WebARX Security.

The InfiniteWP Client plugin before 1.9.4.5 for WordPress has a missing authorization check in iwp_mmb_set_request in init.php. Any attacker who knows the username of an administrator can log in.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in InfiniteWP Client

All 10
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.5Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection via 'iwp_get_comments_*' Array Key
≤1.13.9Update to 1.13.10
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Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection
≤1.13.9Update to 1.13.10
CVE-2026-74011
High8.1Unauthenticated Administrator Account Takeover on Multi-Site
≤1.13.5Update to 1.13.6
CVE-2026-15038
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Limited Directory Traversal to Arbitrary .txt File Reading
≤1.13.0Update to 1.13.1
CVE-2024-10585
Medium5.9Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
≤1.12.3Update to 1.12.3.1
CVE-2023-6565

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. 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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