Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.15
- Affected Plugin
- Database Reset
- Affected Version
<= 3.1- CVSS
- 9.9Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
- CVE
CVE-2020-7047
At a glance
CVE-2020-7047 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Database Reset WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.1. It carries a CVSS score of 9.9 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). The issue is fixed in version 3.15; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2020, reported by Chloe Chamberland.
Vulnerability Overview
The WordPress plugin, WP Database Reset through 3.1, contains a flaw that gave any authenticated user, with minimal permissions, the ability (with a simple wp-admin/admin.php?db-reset-tables[]=users request) to escalate their privileges to administrator while dropping all other users from the table.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
Reaching this weakness in Database Reset <= 3.1 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.
It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For Database Reset the fix is 3.15: builds <= 3.1 are affected, anything from 3.15 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.15, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Database Reset 3.15 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Database Reset
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