CVE-2024-37444 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-37444: WordPress Defender plugin <= 4.7.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

Vendor Wpmu Dev - Your All-In-One Wordpress Platform

Product Defender Security

Weakness CWE-862 · Missing authorization

Published November 1, 2024

Last update April 28, 2026

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CVSS base score

5.3/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Confidentiality None

Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform Defender Security defender-security.This issue affects Defender Security: from n/a through <= 4.7.1.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Defender Security for WordPress is missing authorization checks on certain administrative functions. An unauthenticated attacker can make requests to trigger a denial-of-service condition by exhausting site resources. The vulnerability affects all versions up to 4.7.1. Update to a version newer than 4.7.1 to resolve this issue.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Make unauthenticated requests to cause the site to become slow or unresponsive.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

Your site may experience downtime or performance degradation from unauthenticated denial-of-service attacks.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

Network access to the site; no authentication or user interaction required.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

November 1, 2024 CVE published

April 28, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37444 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html AskarLabs — CWE-862 write-up Missing Authorization

Related vulnerabilities

Identifiers

CVE CVE-2024-37444

CWE CWE-862

CVSS 5.3 / MEDIUM

Affected versions