All In One WP Security <= 5.2.4 — Protection Bypass of Renamed Login Page via URL Encoding
CVE-2023-52147Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <5.2.5Update to 5.2.5 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall
- Affected< 5.2.5
- Patched in5.2.5
Update to 5.2.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 5.2.5. Version 5.2.5 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall.
- 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
- Update to version 5.2.5, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Naveen Muthusamy.
The All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection bypass on the login page in all versions up to and including 5.2.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to visit the login page in cases where it has been renamed by using URL Encoding to visit wp-login.php.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall
All 29| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Two-Factor Authentication Bypass ≤5.4.0Update to 5.5.0 | CVE-2026-111739 | |
| Medium6.3 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Security Control Bypass ≤5.4.8Update to 5.4.9 | CVE-2026-96825 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via REST API Request Path ≤5.4.7Update to 5.4.8 | CVE-2026-8438 | |
| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to IP Blocking ≤5.2.6Update to 5.2.7 | CVE-2024-30468 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.2.5Update to 5.2.6 | CVE-2024-1037 |
- Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Two-Factor Authentication Bypass
≤5.4.0Update to 5.5.0
- Medium6.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Security Control Bypass
≤5.4.8Update to 5.4.9
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via REST API Request Path
≤5.4.7Update to 5.4.8
- Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to IP Blocking
≤5.2.6Update to 5.2.7
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.2.5Update to 5.2.6
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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