Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.21.96 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

9.0
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-22144
CVSS 9.0 (Critical)
Publicly Published March 12, 2024
Last Updated May 7, 2024
Researcher stealthcopter

Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.21.96 due to weak nonce generation combined with missing authorization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to brute force a valid nonce that can be used to add malware rule and execute code on the server.

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Vulnerability Details for Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gotmls (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.23.56, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.21.96
Patched Version
  • 4.23.56

Recent vulnerabilities in Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.23.89 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2026-57691 7.2 dutafi July 9, 2026
2 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.23.87 - Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection CVE-2026-39478 7.5 daroo April 20, 2026
3 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.23.81 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read CVE-2025-11705 6.5 Dmitrii Ignatyev October 28, 2025
4 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.21.85 - Authenticated (Admin+) PHP Object Injection CVE-2022-4327 7.2 thinhnguyen1337 December 21, 2022
5 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.20.95 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-0953 6.1 Taurus Omar April 11, 2022
6 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.21.74 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-2599 6.1 Krzysztof Zając February 8, 2022
7 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.20.93 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-25101 6.1 ZhongFu Su January 24, 2022
8 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.15.17 - Cross-Site Scripting 7.2 Tim Coen May 10, 2016
9 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.15.22 - Cross-Site Request Forgery 3.1 James Hooker May 25, 2015
10 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.15.22 - Cross-Site Scripting 6.1 James Hooker May 25, 2015

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