Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 0.2.4
- Affected Plugin
- WP Attachment Export
- Affected Version
< 0.2.4- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2015-20067
At a glance
CVE-2015-20067 is a high-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the WP Attachment Export WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 0.2.4. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 0.2.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2015, reported by Nitin Venkatesh.
Vulnerability Overview
The WP Attachment Export WordPress plugin before 0.2.4 does not have proper access controls, allowing unauthenticated users to download the XML data that holds all the details of attachments/posts on a Wordpress
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in WP Attachment Export < 0.2.4 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For WP Attachment Export the fix is 0.2.4: builds < 0.2.4 are affected, anything from 0.2.4 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 0.2.4, 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: WP Attachment Export 0.2.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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