WordPress Core < 5.4.2 - Comment Disclosure

2020-06-10 00:00

Carolina Nymark

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 3.7.34

Affected CoreWordPress 5.3

Affected Version3.7 – 5.3.3 · 18 branches

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2020-25286

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Vulnerability Overview

In wp-includes/comment-template.php in WordPress before 5.4.2, comments from a post or page could sometimes be seen in the latest comments even if the post or page was not public.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 3.7.34, 3.8.34, 3.9.32, 4.0.31, 4.1.31, 4.2.28, 4.3.24, 4.4.23, 4.5.22, 4.6.19, 4.7.18, 4.8.14, 4.9.15, 5.0.10, 5.1.6, 5.2.7, 5.3.4, 5.4.2 --- 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

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25286 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8055886f-d0a9-4784-8430-41816db6c884

CVSS Vector

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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