Description

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-10783

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.1

Affected Products

Vendor: mainwp

Product: MainWP Child – Securely Connects to the MainWP Dashboard to Manage Multiple Sites

Nuclei Template

http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-10783.yaml

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.1% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 42.61% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9156e536-a58e-4d78-b136-af8a9613ee23?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp-child/tags/5.2/class/class-mainwp-child.php#L76
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp-child/tags/5.2/class/class-mainwp-connect.php#L69
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp-child/tags/5.2/class/class-mainwp-connect.php#L788
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mainwp-child/
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3197586%40mainwp-child&new=3197586%40mainwp-child&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Timeline