Co-Authors Plus 3.5 - 3.5.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

2022-06-07 00:00
Douglas Johnson

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.5.2
Affected PluginCo-Authors Plus
Affected Version3.5 – 3.5.1
CVSS7.5High
CVEN/A
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Vulnerability Overview

The Co-Authors Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure via the /wp/v2/coauthors REST API input in versions 3.5 and 3.5.1. This is due to insufficient capability checking that allows unauthorized users to access the endpoint and retrieve guest authors email addresses.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 3.5.2, 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

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