CVE-2024-10783CWE-862

MainWP Child <= 5.3.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

High · published December 13, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
2%
Percentile
83.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 versions up to 5.3.3 contained a patch, though a bypass was discovered and not addressed until version 5.3.4.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02333 · 83.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2024-12-13T09:27Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 DEC 09:27Z
    MainWP Child <= 5.3.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
    cvelistv5