Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-13280

Persistent Login Project Persistent Login ≤ 1.8.0

Published
09 January 2025
Modified
02 September 2025
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0041 34th percentile
Risk Priority 71 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-13280 is a critical-severity Insufficient Session Expiration (CWE-613) vulnerability in Persistent Login Project Persistent Login. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Browser Session Hijacking (T1185); ranked at the 34th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-12 (Session Termination) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2024-13280 is an Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability (CWE-613) in the Drupal Persistent Login module that allows Forceful Browsing. The issue affects Persistent Login versions from 0.0.0 before 1.8.0 and from 2.0.* before 2.2.2. Published on 2025-01-09, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), marking it as critical.

Remote attackers require no privileges, authentication, or user interaction to exploit this over the network with low complexity. Exploitation enables high-impact effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized access through persistent sessions that fail to expire properly, potentially allowing session hijacking or forceful browsing to sensitive areas.

The Drupal security advisory SA-CONTRIB-2024-044 at https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2024-044 provides details on mitigation, including patches for upgrading to Persistent Login 1.8.0 or 2.2.2.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A07:2025 Authentication Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in Drupal Persistent Login allows Forceful Browsing.This issue affects Persistent Login: from 0.0.0 before 1.8.0, from 2.0.* before 2.2.2.

CWE(s)
CWE-613

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection
Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.
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T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material Lateral Movement
Adversaries may use alternate authentication material, such as password hashes, Kerberos tickets, and application access tokens, in order to move laterally within an environment and bypass normal system access controls.
attack.mitre.org →
T1550.004 Web Session Cookie Lateral Movement
Adversaries can use stolen session cookies to authenticate to web applications and services.
attack.mitre.org →
T1563 Remote Service Session Hijacking Lateral Movement
Adversaries may take control of preexisting sessions with remote services to move laterally in an environment.
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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

persistent login project
persistent login
≤ 1.8.0 · 2.0.0 — 2.1.1 · 2.2.0 — 2.2.2

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-12 Session Termination good match

AC-12 directly requires automatic session termination after a defined period, structurally preventing reuse of expired session identifiers.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-01 mostly match
prevents

Credential lifecycle management directly includes enforcing session expiration to prevent reuse.

PR.AA-05 mostly match
prevents

Authorization policy enforcement and review covers terminating stale sessions to limit access scope.

PR.AA-03 partial match
prevents

Authentication mechanisms can incorporate session timeout checks but do not inherently address expiration policy.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.5 Secure authentication none match
none

Automatic termination of inactive sessions and limits on connection duration shrink the window during which a hijacked or unattended authenticated session can be exploited.

References