WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Login Lockdown & Protection < 2.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary IP Whitelisting
Description
The Login Lockdown & Protection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized nonce access due to a missing capability check on the ajax_run_tool function in all versions up to, and including, 2.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to obtain a valid nonce that can be used to generate a global unlock key, which can in turn be used to add arbitrary IP address to the plugin allowlist. This can only by exploited on new installations where the site administrator hasn't visited the loginlockdown page yet.
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Classification
Type
NO AUTHORISATION
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc)
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2025-05-06 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2025-05-06 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2025-05-07 (about 1 year ago)