CVE-2023-4634, which is affecting an alarming number of over 70,000 WordPress sites globally. This vulnerability originates from a security flaw in the WordPress Media Library Assistant Plugin, an extremely popular and widely used plugin within the WordPress community. With this vulnerability already being exploited in the wild and the ready availability of a proof-of-concept exploit, the risk of attacks intensifying and spreading further throughout the WordPress ecosystem becomes even more concerning.
Detect CVE-2023-463 Exploitation Attempts
Proactive detection of vulnerability exploitation remains one of the top security use cases due to the ever-increasing number of CVEs impacting popular software, which poses severe challenges to organizations leveraging these products and requires attention from defenders. The newly discovered WordPress security bug tracked as CVE-2023-4634 is getting into the limelight with the PoC exploit publicly available on GitHub. SOC Prime provides defenders with the fastest feed of security news and empowers progressive organizations with the latest detection content to timely identify any traces of attack.
To help security teams proactively detect CVE-2023-4634 exploitation attempts, SOC Prime Platform has recently released a novel Sigma rule in response to the escalating threats affecting WordPress users. Follow the link below to reach the dedicated Sigma rule written by our keen Threat Bounty developer Mustafa Gurkan KARAKAYA:
This Sigma rule detects possible unauthenticated RCE exploitation on WordPress Media Library Assistant by sending a malicious payload. The detection code can be instantly convertible to 18 SIEM, EDR, XDR, and Data Lake technologies and is aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK® framework addressing the Initial Access tactic and the Exploit Public-Facing Application technique (T1190) from its arsenal.
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