Almera Responsive Portfolio Site Template < 2015-05-15 - Sensitive Information Disclosure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.1.8
- Affected Theme
- Almera Responsive Portfolio Site Template
- Affected Version
< 1.1.8- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CVE
CVE-2015-9488
At a glance
CVE-2015-9488 is a high-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Almera Responsive Portfolio Site Template WordPress theme, affecting versions < 1.1.8. 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 1.1.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2015, reported by Hugo Santiago dos Santos.
Vulnerability Overview
The ThemeMakers Almera Responsive Portfolio Site Template component through 2015-05-15 for WordPress allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (such as user_login, user_pass, and user_email values) via a direct request for the wp-content/uploads/tmm_db_migrate/wp_users.dat URI. **This template is a site theme, not a WordPress theme.
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-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Reaching this weakness in Almera Responsive Portfolio Site Template < 1.1.8 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 Almera Responsive Portfolio Site Template the fix is 1.1.8: builds < 1.1.8 are affected, anything from 1.1.8 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.1.8, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The fix is the thing that ends this: Almera Responsive Portfolio Site Template 1.1.8 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
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