CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-9988
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-288
Description
The Crypto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.19. This is due to missing validation on the user being supplied in the 'crypto_connect_ajax_process::register' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the username.
Affected configurations
• odude crypto tool (<= 2.15)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crypto/tags/2.10/includes/class-crypto_connect_ajax_register.php#L91 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3195424/crypto#file3 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7bfe87cf-9883-4f8f-a0f5-23bbc7bb9b7c?source=cve Third Party Advisory