A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in cyberlord92 Web Application Firewall Plugin up to 2.1.1 on WordPress (Firewall Software). Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Malware Scanner plugin and the Web Application Firewall plugin for WordPress (both by MiniOrange) are vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the mo_wpns_init() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.2 (for Malware Scanner) and 2.1.1 (for Web Application Firewall). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator.

The weakness was disclosed 03/13/2024 by Stiofan O'Connor. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-2172 since 03/04/2024. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 03/13/2024).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Firewall Software

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• cyberlord92

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• Web Application Firewall Plugin

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• 2.1.0
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