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.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.12

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc)
Verified
No

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)

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