🛡️ CVE-2024-6641 — wp-hardening

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-185 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The WP Hardening – Fix Your WordPress Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Security Feature Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.6. This is due to use of an incorrect regular expression within the "Stop User Enumeration" feature. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass intended security restrictions and expose site usernames.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2024-6641 is recorded against 1 package.

  • wp-hardening (fixed in 1.2.7)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 September 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-185
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wp-hardening — 1.2.7

Vulnerability Monitoring

Track new vulnerabilities in wp-hardening

CVE-2024-6641 is rated CVSS 5.3 Medium. BotEraser monitors your WordPress installation and notifies you when software you use appears in our vulnerability database.

Set Up Free Alerts →

No credit card required  ·  Results in minutes

ⓘ Data Notice: The information presented above has been compiled from publicly available internet sources. Boteraser aggregates this data solely for informational purposes and does not independently classify, evaluate, or endorse any findings about the vulnerabilities listed. The accuracy and completeness of this information is the sole responsibility of the original publishers. Boteraser and its operators accept no liability for any decisions made based on this data.