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CVE-2023-5089
Defender Security < 4.1.0 - Protection Bypass (Hidden Login Page)
Medium5.3EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- WPScan
Description
The Defender Security WordPress plugin before 4.1.0 does not prevent redirects to the login page via the auth_redirect WordPress function, allowing an unauthenticated visitor to access the login page, even when the hide login page functionality of the plugin is enabled.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
- CWE-209 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
Affected products
- affected < 4.1.0
References (2)
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2b547488-187b-44bc-a57d-f876a7d4c87d (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://www.sprocketsecurity.com/resources/discovering-wp-admin-urls-in-wordpress-with-gravityforms (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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