Defender Security <= 4.0.2 - Hide Login Page Feature Protection Bypass

Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE CVE-2023-5089
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published September 6, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Juan Pablo Gomez Postigo
Description

The Defender Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection bypass in versions up to, and including, 4.0.2. This is due to the plugin failing to prevent redirects via the auth_redirect WordPress function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the 'Hide Login Page' security feature.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug defender-security (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.2
Patched Version
  • 4.1.0
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