CVE-2022-2939 (GCVE-0-2022-2939)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-06 17:19 – Updated: 2025-02-07 20:47
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
WP Cerber Security <= 9.0 - User Enumeration Bypass
Summary
The WP Cerber Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to security protection bypass in versions up to, and including 9.0, that makes user enumeration possible. This is due to improper validation on the value supplied through the 'author' parameter found in the ~/cerber-load.php file. In vulnerable versions, the plugin only blocks requests if the value supplied is numeric, making it possible for attackers to supply additional non-numeric characters to bypass the protection. The non-numeric characters are stripped and the user requested is displayed. This can be used by unauthenticated attackers to gather information about users that can targeted in further attacks.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-07 20:47 UTC
CWE
- CWE-200 - Information Exposure
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisorie… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2772… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| gioni | WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan |
Affected:
9.0 , ≤ 9.0
(custom)
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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