Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.32
- Affected Plugin
- Simple Blog Card
- Affected Version
< 1.32- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CVE
CVE-2023-4036
At a glance
CVE-2023-4036 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Simple Blog Card WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.32. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.32; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2023, reported by Erwan LR.
Vulnerability Overview
The Simple Blog Card plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 1.31 via the 'simpleblogcard' function. This can allow authenticated subscriber-level attackers to extract sensitive data including unpublished or password-protected blog posts.
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
Simple Blog Card < 1.32 carries this weakness at simpleblogcard, and reaching it 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 Simple Blog Card the fix is 1.32: builds < 1.32 are affected, anything from 1.32 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.32, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The fix is the thing that ends this: Simple Blog Card 1.32 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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