CVE-2015-9482

Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme < 1.1.9 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

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

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.1.9
Affected Version
< 1.1.9
CVSS
7.5High
Weakness type
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE
CVE-2015-9482
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At a glance

CVE-2015-9482 is a high-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions < 1.1.9. 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 1.1.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2015, reported by Hugo Santiago dos Santos.

Vulnerability Overview

The ThemeMakers Car Dealer / Auto Dealer Responsive theme before 1.1.9 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 Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme < 1.1.9 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 Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme the fix is 1.1.9: builds < 1.1.9 are affected, anything from 1.1.9 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.1.9, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme 1.1.9 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.

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