CVE-2024-11349
Published: 21 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-11349 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288) vulnerability in Scriptsbundle Adforest. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 6.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The AdForest theme for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to and including 5.1.6. The flaw stems from insufficient identity verification in the sb_login_user_with_otp_fun() function, which allows the theme to authenticate users without proper checks. This affects the WordPress theme component and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8 under CWE-288.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the issue over the network to log in as arbitrary users, including administrators, thereby gaining full control over the affected site without any user interaction or credentials.
The provided references point to the theme's commercial listing and a Wordfence threat intelligence entry, but contain no explicit details on patches or mitigation steps. The EPSS score remains flat at 0.0977 with no indicated rise after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-34225
Vulnerability details
The AdForest theme for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.6. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's identity prior to authenticating them through the sb_login_user_with_otp_fun() function. This makes…
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it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as arbitrary users, including administrators.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Authorizing remote access reduces the ability to bypass authentication via unauthorized alternate remote channels.
Users can identify logons via alternate paths or channels by reviewing the previous logon time.
Adaptive requirements can apply across access paths, reducing the ability to bypass authentication via alternate channels or paths.
Centralized IdPs close alternate authentication paths that enable bypass.
Enforces authentication for non-organizational users, making it harder to bypass via alternate paths or channels.
Requires authentication to occur exclusively over the isolated trusted path, directly preventing bypass via alternate or untrusted channels.