All In One WP Security <= 5.2.4 - Protection Bypass of Renamed Login Page via URL Encoding

Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE CVE-2023-52147
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published October 25, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Naveen Muthusamy
Description

The All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection bypass on the login page in all versions up to and including 5.2.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to visit the login page in cases where it has been renamed by using URL Encoding to visit wp-login.php.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.2.5
Patched Version
  • 5.2.5
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