Widget Options - Extended <= 5.1.0 & Widget Options <= 4.0.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Disclosure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.1.3
- Affected Plugin
- Widget Options - Extended
- Affected Version
< 5.1.3- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CVE
CVE-2024-35691
At a glance
CVE-2024-35691 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Widget Options - Extended WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 5.1.3. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 5.1.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2024, reported by Dave Jong.
Vulnerability Overview
The Widget Options - Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to 5.1.3 (exclusive) for Widget Options - Extended and all versions up to, and including, 4.0.1 for Widget Options. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including private/draft posts and user meta. CVE-2024-35690 was also assigned to this issue (specifically for the free version)
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 interaction from a victim user.
CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Reaching this weakness in Widget Options - Extended < 5.1.3 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. 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 Widget Options - Extended the fix is 5.1.3: builds < 5.1.3 are affected, anything from 5.1.3 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 5.1.3, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The fix is the thing that ends this: Widget Options - Extended 5.1.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Widget Options - Extended
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