WP Cerber Security <= 9.3.2 - User Enumeration Bypass via REST API

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2022-4417
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 12, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Abdul Muneeb
Description

The WP Cerber Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to security protection bypass in versions up to, and including 9.3.2, that makes user enumeration possible via the REST API. This is due the plugin not blocking access to the user endpoint when the plugin resides within a subdirectory. This can be used by unauthenticated attackers to gather information about users that can targeted in further attacks.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-cerber (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 9.3.2
Patched Version
  • 9.3.3
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