CVE-2024-52475
Published: 28 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-52475 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 3.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-52475 is an authentication bypass vulnerability arising from use of an alternate path or channel, tracked under CWE-288. It affects the Wawp automation-web-platform WordPress plugin, with all versions through 3.0.17 vulnerable.
Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit the flaw over the network without any credentials or user interaction. Successful exploitation grants full authentication bypass, enabling account takeover and arbitrary actions equivalent to an administrative user, consistent with the CVSS 9.8 rating.
The referenced Patchstack advisory identifies the issue as an account-takeover vulnerability in the Wawp plugin and indicates that the flaw is resolved in version 3.0.18.
EPSS for the CVE rose from a low baseline to a recorded peak of 0.4663, with the current value at 0.2907, indicating that exploitation interest increased after public disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-46084
Vulnerability details
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Information Technology Wawp automation-web-platform allows Authentication Bypass.This issue affects Wawp: from n/a through < 3.0.18.
- 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.