SecuPress Free — WordPress Security <= 2.2.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Banned IP Address

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-1504
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 1, 2024
Last Updated April 2, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The SecuPress Free — WordPress Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.5.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the secupress_blackhole_ban_ip() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to block a user's IP via a forged request granted they can trick the user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug secupress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.5.1
Patched Version
  • 2.2.5.2
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