SL User Create < 0.2.5 - Information Disclosure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 0.2.5
- Affected Plugin
- SL User Create
- Affected Version
< 0.2.5- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the SL User Create WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 0.2.5. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 0.2.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2013.
Vulnerability Overview
The SL User Create plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Disclosure in versions before 0.2.5 due to a weak secret string. This can allow authenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including configuration 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 interaction from a victim user.
CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Reaching this weakness in SL User Create < 0.2.5 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 SL User Create the fix is 0.2.5: builds < 0.2.5 are affected, anything from 0.2.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 0.2.5, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The fix is the thing that ends this: SL User Create 0.2.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
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