LWS Hide Login <= 2.1.8 - Protection Mechanism Bypass

Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE CVE-2023-47818
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 16, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Naveen Muthusamy
Description

The LWS Hide Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection mechanism bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.8. This is due to the fact that attackers can bypass the hidden login page by visiting install.php. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to login to the site even when the login page has been hidden.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug lws-hide-login (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.8
Patched Version
  • 2.1.9
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