Wordfence <= 5.2.3 - Multiple Protection Mechanism Bypasses

Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published September 14, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Voxel@Night
Description

The Wordfence Plugin is vulnerable to multiple protection mechanism bypasses in version up to, and including, 5.2.3. These allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass exploit protection and throttling restrictions.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wordfence (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.2.4
Patched Version
  • 5.2.4
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