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HC Custom WP-Admin URL <= 1.4 — Missing Authorization to Login URL Change

ba52c97e-9f2a-4e48-a133-79ed31cfbf3aPublished · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.4No patch available

What to do until a fix ships
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Severity
High7.3
CVSS
7.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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:L Integrity
Low
A:L Availability
Low
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?

HC Custom WP-Admin URL hc-custom-wp-admin-url

  1. Affected≤ 1.4
  2. PatchedNo fix yet

No patched version available.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.4. No fixed version has been released.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under HC Custom WP-Admin URL.
  • 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 HC Custom WP-Admin URL to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

HC Custom WP-Admin URL versions up to 1.4 set the admin login slug via the admin_init hook with no capability checks. This allows unauthenticated attackers to change the login slug.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.3

  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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