CVE-2024-4344

MEDIUM

Shield Security < 19.1.13 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Missing Nonce Validation

Title source: llm

Description

The Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 19.1.13. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the exec function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to disable pin protection for the admin interface of the plugin via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-simple-firewall/trunk/src/lib/src/ActionRouter/Actions/SecurityAdminRemove.php

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3079504%40wp-simple-firewall%2Ftrunk&old=3079461%40wp-simple-firewall%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d3b9cde-e4d8-4217-96b4-f6ad00cd3a2d?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3

EPSS 0.0022

EPSS Percentile 12.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-352

Status published

Products (2)

paultgoodchild/Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security < 19.1.10

paultgoodchild/Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches < 19.1.10

Published Jun 02, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026