CVE-2020-12070

Advanced Woo Search <= 2.00 - Information Disclosure

2020-04-23 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.00
Affected Plugin: Advanced Woo Search – Product Search for WooCommerce
Affected Version: <= 1.99
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2020-12070

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At a glance

CVE-2020-12070 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Advanced Woo Search WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.99. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.00; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2020.

Vulnerability Overview

The Advanced Woo Search plugin version through 1.99 for Wordpress suffers from a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in every ajax search request via the sql field to includes/class-aws-search.php.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in Advanced Woo Search <= 1.99 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Advanced Woo Search the fix is 2.00: builds <= 1.99 are affected, anything from 2.00 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.00, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Advanced Woo Search 2.00 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12070 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/add568d4-d615-40ff-9320-89869f825f81 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12070

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Advanced Woo Search – Product Search for WooCommerce

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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