Better Notifications for WP <= 1.8.6 - Email Address Disclosure

2022-01-31 00:00

Krzysztof Zając

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.8.7

Affected PluginCustomize WordPress Emails and Alerts – Better Notifications for WP

Affected Version< 1.8.7

CVSS4.3Medium

CVECVE-2022-0345

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Vulnerability Overview

The Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts WordPress plugin before 1.8.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF check in its bnfw_search_users AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users to call it and query for user e-mail prefixes (finding the first letter, then the second one, then the third one etc.).

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.8.7, or a newer patched version --- 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-2022-0345 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c675f883-7e6f-43c3-a901-82ed2d2b3772

CVSS Vector

4.3

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

Base

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

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