CVE-2024-13539

AForms Eats <= 1.3.1 - Unauthenticated Full Path Disclosure

2025-02-11 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.3.2
Affected Plugin: AForms Eats
Affected Version: <= 1.3.1
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-209 · Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
CVE: CVE-2024-13539

At a glance

CVE-2024-13539 is a medium-severity Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in the AForms Eats WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.1. 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 1.3.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by stealthcopter.

Vulnerability Overview

The AForms Eats plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Full Path Disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.1. This is due the /vendor/aura/payload-interface/phpunit.php file being publicly accessible and displaying error messages. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full path of the web application, which can be used to aid other attacks. The information displayed is not useful on its own, and requires another vulnerability to be present for damage to an affected website.

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-209: Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

The product generates an error message that includes sensitive information about its environment, users, or associated data.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: AForms Eats 1.3.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13539 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5e1950c7-cc7c-48cf-974e-f691ef61d6be https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13539

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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