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WordPress Plugin WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan Security Bypass (8.9)

Description

WordPress Plugin WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to perform otherwise restricted actions and subsequently extract data such as users, posts, authors, and IP addresses from the WordPress REST API. WordPress Plugin WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan version 8.9 is vulnerable; prior versions are also affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 8.9.3 or latest

References

https://github.com/mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/FEYE-2021-0024/FEYE-2021-0024.md

https://github.com/mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/FEYE-2021-0023/FEYE-2021-0023.md

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-cerber/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-37597 CVE-2021-37598 CWE-264 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Authentication Bypass

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