Freesoul Deactivate Plugins <= 1.9.4.0 - Information Disclosure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.9.4.1
- Affected Version
<= 1.9.4.0- CVSS
- 3.7Low
- Weakness type
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CVE
CVE-2023-22687
At a glance
CVE-2023-22687 is a low-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Freesoul Deactivate Plugins WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.9.4.0. It carries a CVSS score of 3.7 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.9.4.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2023, reported by Justiice.
Vulnerability Overview
The Freesoul Deactivate Plugins plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 1.9.4.0 via the eos_dp_export_plugins_list function. When an administrator exports a list of installed plugins, the plugin creates a file containing this information with a guessable name in a known location. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including a list of installed plugins.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, 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 Freesoul Deactivate Plugins <= 1.9.4.0 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 Freesoul Deactivate Plugins the fix is 1.9.4.1: builds <= 1.9.4.0 are affected, anything from 1.9.4.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.9.4.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The fix is the thing that ends this: Freesoul Deactivate Plugins 1.9.4.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Freesoul Deactivate Plugins – Disable plugins on individual WordPress pages
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