CVE-2014-8607

Backup, Restore and Migrate WordPress Sites With the XCloner Plugin <= 3.1.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

2014-10-17 00:00
Larry W. Cashdollar

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.1.2
Affected Plugin
Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner
Affected Version
< 3.1.2
CVSS
7.2High
Weakness type
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE
CVE-2014-8607
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At a glance

CVE-2014-8607 is a high-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 3.1.2. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). The issue is fixed in version 3.1.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2014, reported by Larry W. Cashdollar.

Vulnerability Overview

The XCloner plugin 3.1.1 for WordPress and 3.5.1 for Joomla! provides the MySQL username and password on the command line, which allows local users with administrator privileges to obtain sensitive information via the ps command.

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-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner < 3.1.2 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 Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner the fix is 3.1.2: builds < 3.1.2 are affected, anything from 3.1.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.1.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner 3.1.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8607https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fae9f282-eb67-4ad9-be2d-677238527934https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8607

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