Vulnerability · Published Apr 2, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-1504SecuPress Free — WordPress Security <= 2.2.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Banned IP Address
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in SecuPress with Simple SSL – Simple and Performant Security from secupress. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 18% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The SecuPress Free — WordPress Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.5.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the secupress_blackhole_ban_ip() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to block a user's IP via a forged request granted they can trick the user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| secupress | SecuPress with Simple SSL – Simple and Performant Security | 0 – through 2.2.5.1 |
Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4243bd6d-34f6-4d29-a333-4499a2e2d2e1?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/secupress/trunk/free/modules/sensitive-data/plugins/blackhole.php#L54
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/secupress/tags/2.2.5.1/free/modules/sensitive-data/plugins/blackhole.php#L74