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Description

The WP Users Masquerade plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to incorrect authentication and capability checking in the 'ajax_masq_login' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-10-04 | Published 2024-10-10 | Updated 2024-10-10 | Assigner Wordfence




HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2024-10-04:Discovered
2024-10-04:Vendor Notified
2024-10-09:Disclosed

Credits

István Márton finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-76f6-4d27-87b1-f6cd5f5cbbb7?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...unk/masquerade.php?rev=1703860

cve.org (CVE-2024-9522)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-9522)