The MainWP Child – Securely Connects to the MainWP...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
Dec 13, 2024
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Dec 13, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Dec 13, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Dec 13, 2024
Last updated
Dec 13, 2024
The MainWP Child – Securely Connects to the MainWP Dashboard to Manage Multiple Sites plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing authorization checks on the register_site function in all versions up to, and including, 5.2 when a site is left in an unconfigured state. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as an administrator on instances where MainWP Child is not yet connected to the MainWP Dashboard. IMPORTANT: this only affects sites who have MainWP Child installed and have not yet connected to the MainWP Dashboard, and do not have the unique security ID feature enabled. Sites already connected to the MainWP Dashboard plugin and do not have the unique security ID feature enabled, are NOT affected and not required to upgrade. Please note 5.2.1 contains a partial patch, though we consider 5.3 to be the complete patch.
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