CVE-2015-0902

All in One SEO <= 2.2.5.1 - Information Disclosure

2015-03-31 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.2.6
Affected Plugin: All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights)
Affected Version: < 2.2.6
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2015-0902

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At a glance

CVE-2015-0902 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the All in One SEO WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.2.6. 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 2.2.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2015, reported by Fumito MIZUNO.

Vulnerability Overview

The Semper Fi All in One SEO Pack plugin before 2.2.6 for WordPress does not consider the presence of password protection during generation of the Meta Description field, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTML source code.

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 All in One SEO < 2.2.6 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 All in One SEO the fix is 2.2.6: builds < 2.2.6 are affected, anything from 2.2.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.2.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: All in One SEO 2.2.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0902 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/39f8c830-9f71-4ca6-8fcc-54769cef878f https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0902

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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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