Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.21.96 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-22144
CVSS Critical (9)
Publicly Published March 12, 2024
Last Updated May 7, 2024
Researcher stealthcopter
Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.21.96 due to weak nonce generation combined with missing authorization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to brute force a valid nonce that can be used to add malware rule and execute code on the server.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gotmls (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.21.96
Patched Version
  • 4.23.56
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