Apocalypse Meow 21.1.3 - 21.2.7 - Authentication Bypass

Weak Encoding for Password
CVE Not available
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published December 3, 2017
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Steve
Description

The Apocalypse Meow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in versions 21.1.3 - 21.2.7. This is due to improper validation via bcrypt. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the authentication check.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug apocalypse-meow (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 21.1.3 - 21.2.7
Patched Version
  • 21.2.8
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