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CVE-2024-2172

Published: Mar 13, 2024

Modified: Apr 8, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.8

CRITICAL

Description

The Malware Scanner plugin and the Web Application Firewall plugin for WordPress (both by MiniOrange) are vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the mo_wpns_init() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.2 (for Malware Scanner) and 2.1.1 (for Web Application Firewall). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator.

Vendor	Product	Versions
cyberlord92	Web Application Firewall – website security	affected `0 - <= 2.1.1`
cyberlord92	Malware Scanner	affected `0 - <= 4.7.2`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6347f588-a3fd-4909-ad57-9d78787b5728?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/miniorange-malware-protection/tags/4.7.2/handler/login.php#L89

https://wordpress.org/plugins/miniorange-malware-protection/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3054179%40miniorange-malware-protection&new=3054179%40miniorange-malware-protection&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3054255%40web-application-firewall&new=3054255%40web-application-firewall&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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