WooCommerce Email Test <= 1.5 - Sensitive Data Exposure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.6
- Affected Plugin
- WooCommerce Email Test
- Affected Version
<= 1.5- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- 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 WooCommerce Email Test WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.5. 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 1.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2016, reported by jansass GmbH.
Vulnerability Overview
The WooCommerce Email Test for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure in versions up to, and including, 1.5 by opening the following URL https://www.example.de/?woocommerce_email_test=WC_Email_Customer_Completed_Order. This can allow unauthorized attackers to extract sensitive data including customer details, orders, payment information, etc.
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 WooCommerce Email Test <= 1.5 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 WooCommerce Email Test the fix is 1.6: builds <= 1.5 are affected, anything from 1.6 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.6, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The fix is the thing that ends this: WooCommerce Email Test 1.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
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