CVE-2024-10783

HIGHNuclei

MainWP Child <= 5.3.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Title source: CVE List
STIX 2.1 vulnerability

Record summary

CVE-2024-10783 has a selected CVSS score of 8.1 (high); EIP currently links 1 Nuclei template.

Description

The MainWP Child – Securely Connects to the MainWP Dashboard to Manage Multiple Sites plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing authorization checks on the register_site function in all versions up to, and including, 5.2 when a site is left in an unconfigured state. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as an administrator on instances where MainWP Child is not yet connected to the MainWP Dashboard. IMPORTANT: this only affects sites who have MainWP Child installed and have not yet connected to the MainWP Dashboard, and do not have the unique security ID feature enabled. Sites already connected to the MainWP Dashboard plugin and do not have the unique security ID feature enabled, are NOT affected and not required to upgrade. Please note versions up to 5.3.3 contained a patch, though a bypass was discovered and not addressed until version 5.3.4.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Nuclei templates
1

CISA SSVC decision

ExploitationNone
AutomatableNo
Technical impactTotal

CISA Coordinator · SSVC 2.0.3 · Evaluated Dec 23, 2024 · Source: CVE List

Affected products and versions

1
ProductSourceVersion range

MainWP Child – Securely Connects to the MainWP Dashboard to Manage Multiple Sites

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Default status: unaffected

CVE ListThrough 5.3.3affected

Nuclei templates

1
ProjectDiscoveryHIGHWordPress Plugin MainWP Child - Authentication BypassCVSS 8.1

The plugin is vulnerable to an authentication bypass that allows an unauthenticated user to login as an administrator without providing a password. This vulnerability is only exploitable when the plugin has not been connected to a MainWP Dashboard and the "Require unique security ID" option is not enabled (it is disabled by default).

Impact

Unauthenticated attackers can bypass authentication to gain administrator access when the plugin is not connected to MainWP Dashboard and unique security ID is not enabled.

Remediation

Update MainWP Child plugin to a version newer than 5.2.

WeaknessesCWE-862
AuthorsSean Murphy, iamnoooob, rootxharsh, pdresearch
Template tagscvecve2024wpmainwp-childwpscanwordpresswp-pluginauth-bypassvuln
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1898d4f4-1874-4d00-8930-15774d57c9ed/ https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp-child/tags/5.2/class/class-mainwp-child.php#L76 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp-child/tags/5.2/class/class-mainwp-connect.php#L69 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp-child/tags/5.2/class/class-mainwp-connect.php#L788 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3197586%40mainwp-child&new=3197586%40mainwp-child&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Source: ProjectDiscovery

References

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