CVE-2015-9486

Axioma Premium Responsive < 1.1.2 - Information Disclosure

2015-05-15 00:00
Hugo Santiago dos Santos

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.1.2
Affected Version
< 1.1.2
CVSS
7.5High
Weakness type
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE
CVE-2015-9486
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At a glance

CVE-2015-9486 is a high-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Axioma Premium Responsive WordPress theme, affecting versions < 1.1.2. 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 1.1.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2015, reported by Hugo Santiago dos Santos.

Vulnerability Overview

The ThemeMakers Axioma Premium Responsive theme 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.

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 Axioma Premium Responsive < 1.1.2 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 Axioma Premium Responsive the fix is 1.1.2: builds < 1.1.2 are affected, anything from 1.1.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.1.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Axioma Premium Responsive 1.1.2 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.

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External References

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