The Malware Scanner plugin and the Web Application Firewall plugin for WordPress (both by MiniOrange) are vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the mo_wpns_init() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.2 (for Malware Scanner) and 2.1.1 (for Web Application Firewall). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator.

Related CVEs

CVE-2024-2172

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-r4jv-cv98-6c79

Published

March 13, 2024 6:31 PM

Last Modified

March 13, 2024 6:31 PM

CVSS Score

9.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 18, 2025 6:25 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.