CVE-2024-9989
Published: 29 October 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-9989 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288) vulnerability in Odude Crypto Tool. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 0.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Crypto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to and including 2.18. The flaw stems from insufficient restrictions on method invocation within the crypto_connect_ajax_process function, which permits a limited arbitrary call to crypto_connect_ajax_process::log_in. This issue is tracked as CVE-2024-9989 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8 and is associated with CWE-288.
Unauthenticated attackers who know a valid username can exploit the vulnerability over the network to log in as that user, including site administrators, without any user interaction or credentials. Successful exploitation grants full access to the targeted account and its privileges.
References point to a patched changeset in the plugin repository and Wordfence threat intelligence entries that identify the affected code paths in class-crypto_connect_ajax_register.php. Site owners should update the Crypto plugin to a version newer than 2.18 to remediate the issue.
The EPSS score for this CVE stands at 0.9289 with no material increase after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50268
Vulnerability details
The Crypto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.18. This is due to a limited arbitrary method call to 'crypto_connect_ajax_process::log_in' function in the 'crypto_connect_ajax_process' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers…
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to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the username.
- 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.