Brute Force Login Protection <= 1.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE	CVE-2014-5034
CVSS	High (8.8)
Publicly Published	May 17, 2015
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	0pc0deFR

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Brute Force Login Protection module up to and including 1.5.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified users for requests that have unknown impact via a crafted request to the brute-force-login-protection page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	brute-force-login-protection (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 1.5.1
Patched Version

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