CVE-2024-25903

Frontend File Manager <= 22.7 - Sensitive Information Exposure via user uploads

2024-02-12 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 22.8
Affected Plugin: Frontend File Manager Plugin
Affected Version: <= 22.7
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2024-25903

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At a glance

CVE-2024-25903 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Frontend File Manager Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 22.7. 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 22.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2024, reported by Joshua Chan.

Vulnerability Overview

The Frontend File Manager Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 22.7 via the user upload functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to access user-uploaded files.

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 Frontend File Manager Plugin <= 22.7 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 Frontend File Manager Plugin the fix is 22.8: builds <= 22.7 are affected, anything from 22.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 22.8, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Frontend File Manager Plugin 22.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25903 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bbade634-cd81-41c0-8976-f5cb251da3f2 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25903

Related records

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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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