CVE-2021-24917 — WPS Hide Login < 1.9.1 - Protection Bypass with Referer-Header

Description

The WPS Hide Login WordPress plugin before 1.9.1 has a bug which allows to get the secret login page by setting a random referer string and making a request to /wp-admin/options.php as an unauthenticated user.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected	Fixed
—	WPS Hide Login	1.9.1 – < 1.9.1	1.9.1

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Metasploit 1 module

WordPress WPS Hide Login Login Page Revealer
auxiliary/scanner/http/wp_wps_hide_login_revealer

GitHub 2 repositories

Cappricio-Securities/CVE-2021-24917 ★ 3 · May 20, 2024

WordPress WPS Hide Login <1.9.1 - Information Disclosure
buildwithlian/CVE-2021-24917 ★ 2 · Jan 20, 2024

CVE-2021-24917

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Automated scanner template

A ready-made Nuclei template detects this vulnerability automatically. Vulnerabilities with public scanner templates are typically probed across the internet soon after the template appears — exposed systems should be patched first.

WordPress WPS Hide Login <1.9.1 - Information Disclosure http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-24917.yaml

Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.