CVE-2024-1340 Login Lockdown – Protect Login Form <= 2.08 - Missing Authorization
Authenticated subscribers can export plugin settings to obtain the global unlock key, allowing them to bypass IP restrictions and whitelist their own address.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-1340?
CVE-2024-1340 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in webfactory Login Lockdown & Protection, published on 20 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Login Lockdown – Protect Login Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the generate_export_file function in all versions up to, and including, 2.08. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and higher, to export this plugin's settings that include whitelisted IP addresses as well as a global unlock key. With the global unlock key an attacker can add their IP address to the whitelist.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1340?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Webfactoryltd Wp Login Lockdown.
How do I fix CVE-2024-1340?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1340 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-1340 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1340 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in webfactory Login Lockdown & Protection
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wf3p-q3f6-j3g8.