CVE-2024-2172 (GCVE-0-2024-2172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-13 15:26 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:57
VLAI
Title
Malware Scanner <= 4.7.2 and Web Application Firewall <= 2.1.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-03-13 17:31 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-304 - Missing Critical Step in Authentication
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2195 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
cyberlord92 Web Application Firewall – website security Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.1.1 (semver)
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cyberlord92 Malware Scanner Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.7.2 (semver)
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miniorange malware_scanner Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.7.2 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:miniorange:malware_scanner:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Create a notification for this product.
miniorange web_application_firewall Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.1.1 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:miniorange:web_application_firewall:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Stiofan O'Connor
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    Related by attack behaviour

    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.