This high-severity flaw, identified as CVE-2024-50550, could allow unauthorized users to gain administrative access to WordPress sites.
Understanding the Vulnerability
The issue stems from the plugin’s “role simulation” feature, which is intended to help site administrators test different user roles. Unfortunately, this feature contains a weak hash check mechanism. Under specific configurations, attackers can exploit this weakness to predict or brute-force the hash values, potentially elevating their privileges to that of an administrator.
For the vulnerability to be exploitable, the following conditions must be met:
- The crawler’s run duration and intervals are set between 2,500 and 4,000 seconds.
- The server load limit is set to 0.
- Role simulation is set to administrator.
If these settings are in place, an attacker could predict the hash values within a set of one million possibilities, leading to unauthorized access.
Protecting Your Website
To safeguard your WordPress site, it’s crucial to update the LiteSpeed Cache plugin to the latest version, which addresses this vulnerability. Regularly updating all plugins and themes is a fundamental practice in maintaining website security.
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