CVE-2023-5576

Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid <= 0.9.91 - Google Drive Client Secret Exposure

2023-10-13 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 0.9.92
Affected Plugin: WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging
Affected Version: <= 0.9.91
CVSS: 8.0High
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2023-5576

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At a glance

CVE-2023-5576 is a high-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the WPvivid WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 0.9.91. It carries a CVSS score of 8.0 (reachable over the network; high confidentiality, integrity impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 0.9.92; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2023.

Vulnerability Overview

The Migration, Backup, Staging - WPvivid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 0.9.91 via Google Drive API secrets stored in plaintext in the publicly visible plugin source. This could allow unauthenticated attackers to impersonate the WPVivid Google Drive account via the API if they can trick a user into reauthenticating via another vulnerability or social engineering.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in WPvivid <= 0.9.91 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 WPvivid the fix is 0.9.92: builds <= 0.9.91 are affected, anything from 0.9.92 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 0.9.92, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: WPvivid 0.9.92 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5576 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4658109d-295c-4a1b-b219-ca1f4664ff1d https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5576

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CVSS Vector

8.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityHigh
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityNone

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