WordPress Core < 5.0.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

2018-12-12 00:00
Team Yoast

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.7.28
Affected CoreWordPress 5.0
Affected Version3.7 – 5.0 · 15 branches
CVSS7.5High
CVECVE-2018-20151
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Vulnerability Overview

In WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1, the user-activation page could be read by a search engine's web crawler if an unusual configuration were chosen. The search engine could then index and display a user's e-mail address and (rarely) the password that was generated by default.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 3.7.28, 3.8.28, 3.9.26, 4.0.25, 4.1.25, 4.2.22, 4.3.18, 4.4.17, 4.5.16, 4.6.13, 4.7.12, 4.8.8, 4.9.9, 5.0.1 --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor) The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

External References

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