Vulnerability · Published Jun 2, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-4344Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security <= 19.1.13 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches from paultgoodchild. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 12% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 19.1.13. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the exec function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to disable pin protection for the admin interface of the plugin via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| paultgoodchild | Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches | 0 – through 19.1.10 |
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/2d3b9cde-e4d8-4217-96b4-f6ad00cd3a2d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-simple-firewall/trunk/src/lib/src/ActionRouter/Actions/SecurityAdminRemove.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3079504%40wp-simple-firewall%2Ftrunk&old=3079461%40wp-simple-firewall%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=