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ZM Ajax Login & Register <= 2.0.2 — Authentication Bypass

CVE-2023-2027Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.0.2No patch available

What to do until a fix ships
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-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

ZM Ajax Login & Register zm-ajax-login-register

  1. Affected≤ 2.0.2
  2. PatchedNo fix yet

No patched version available.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.2. No fixed version has been released.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under ZM Ajax Login & Register.
  • 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. No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch ZM Ajax Login & Register to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton.

The ZM Ajax Login & Register plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.0.2. This is due to insufficient verification on the user being supplied during a Facebook login through the plugin. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the username.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in ZM Ajax Login & Register

All 3
More vulnerabilities in ZM Ajax Login & Register
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Critical9.8Local File Inclusion
<1.1.0Update to 1.1.0
CVE-2015-4153
Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.0.9Update to 1.1.0
CVE-2015-4465

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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