Blessing Premium Responsive WordPress Theme < 1.3.2.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.3.2.1
- Affected Theme
- Blessing Premium Responsive WordPress Theme
- Affected Version
< 1.3.2.1- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CVE
CVE-2015-9491
At a glance
CVE-2015-9491 is a high-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Blessing Premium Responsive WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions < 1.3.2.1. 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 1.3.2.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2015, reported by Hugo Santiago dos Santos.
Vulnerability Overview
The "Blessing Premium Responsive WordPress Theme" theme for WordPress is vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure in versions up to 1.3.2.1 via a direct request to wp-content/uploads/tmm_db_migrate/wp_users.dat URI. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to steal sensitive information such as user_login, user_pass, user_activation_key, and user_email values.
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 Blessing Premium Responsive WordPress Theme < 1.3.2.1 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 Blessing Premium Responsive WordPress Theme the fix is 1.3.2.1: builds < 1.3.2.1 are affected, anything from 1.3.2.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.3.2.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The fix is the thing that ends this: Blessing Premium Responsive WordPress Theme 1.3.2.1 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Alerts
External References
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