Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) <= 7.6.9 - Password Protection Bypass

Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE CVE-2024-13688
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 7, 2025
Last Updated April 30, 2025
Researcher Dogus Demirkiran
Description

The Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Password Protection Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.9. This is due to the plugin using a hardcoded password for password protection. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to access a password protected site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug admin-site-enhancements (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 7.6.9
Patched Version
  • 7.6.10
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