CVE-2019-14800

FV Flowplayer Video Player <= 7.3.14.727 - Sensitive Information Exposure

2019-05-20 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 7.3.15.727
Affected Plugin: FV Flowplayer Video Player
Affected Version: <= 7.3.14.727
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2019-14800

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At a glance

CVE-2019-14800 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the FV Flowplayer Video Player WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 7.3.14.727. 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 7.3.15.727; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2019.

Vulnerability Overview

The FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin before 7.3.15.727 for WordPress allows guests to obtain the email subscription list in CSV format via the wp-admin/admin-post.php?page=fvplayer&fv-email-export=1 URI.

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 FV Flowplayer Video Player <= 7.3.14.727 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 FV Flowplayer Video Player the fix is 7.3.15.727: builds <= 7.3.14.727 are affected, anything from 7.3.15.727 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 7.3.15.727, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: FV Flowplayer Video Player 7.3.15.727 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14800 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3a337765-b6ea-4c2a-9f1a-e408a9444b88 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14800

Related records

Same weakness class

5.3FV Flowplayer Video Player <= 7.3.14.727 Sensitive Data Exposure

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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