WP2Speed Faster – Optimize PageSpeed Insights Score 90-100 <= 1.0.1 - Improper Authorization due to use of Hardcoded Credentials

Use of Hard-coded Credentials
CVE CVE-2024-5810
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published July 8, 2024
Last Updated July 9, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The WP2Speed Faster – Optimize PageSpeed Insights Score 90-100 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to the use of hardcoded credentials to authenticate all the incoming API requests. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite CSS, update the trial settings, purge the cache, and find attachments.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp2speed (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.1
Patched Version
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