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CVE-2024-1861: Disable Json API, Login Lockdown, XMLRPC, Pingback, Stop User Enumeration Anti Hacker Scan <= 4.52 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Table Truncation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Disable Json API, Login Lockdown, XMLRPC, Pingback, Stop User Enumeration Anti Hacker Scan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the antihacker_truncate_scan_table() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.52. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to truncate the scan table.

Affected products

• sminozzi Disable Json API, Login Lockdown, XMLRPC, Pingback, Stop User Enumeration Anti Hacker Scan: before 4.53 — fixed in 4.53

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: sminozzi Disable Json API, Login Lockdown, XMLRPC, Pingback, Stop User Enumeration Anti Hacker Scan 4.53. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3040447%40antihacker&new=3040447%40antihacker&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b80c8888-e8d6-4458-ae93-8e4182060590?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3040447%40antihacker&new=3040447%40antihacker&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b80c8888-e8d6-4458-ae93-8e4182060590?source=cve

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