# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Feb 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wf3p-q3f6-j3g8

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1340?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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

- [CVE-2023-50837](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-50837/): WordPress Login Lockdown Plugin <= 2.06 is vulnerable to SQL Injection (high 7.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1340 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1340 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: webfactory Login Lockdown & Protection. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1340/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1340/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1340
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1340
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1340

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1340/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.