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Severity
9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The Advanced IP Blocker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 8.13.13 The vulnerability exists because handleloginaction() performs no server-side check — via transient, session marker, or equivalent — that a requester completed step-1 password authentication before processing a step-2 TOTP submission for the POSTed userid; compounding this, an error branch in the function unconditionally mints a fresh advaipbl-2fa-interim-{userid} nonce and delivers it in a Location header to any unauthenticated caller, after which display2faloginformstep2() renders a valid advaipbl-2fa-verify-{userid} nonce in HTML — both nonces computed against a fixed uid=0 empty-session context and therefore fully reusable by the attacker across subsequent requests. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication entirely for any 2FA-enabled account, including administrators, by brute-forcing an unthrottled 6-digit TOTP code (no attempt counter, no account lockout, and no wploginfailed firing) and receiving a fully authenticated session cookie via wpsetauthcookie without ever supplying the account password, resulting in complete site takeover. Exploitation requires only a known userid for an account that has the plugin's 2FA feature enabled.

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