Chocolate WP – Responsive Photography Theme (All Versions) - Full Path Disclosure

2013-01-24 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Unpatched
Affected Theme: Chocolate WP – Responsive Photography Theme | Photography
Affected Version: *
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE pending

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At a glance

This record tracks a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Chocolate WP WordPress theme, affecting versions *. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed January 2013, reported by Eugene Dokukin.

Vulnerability Overview

The Chocolate WP – Responsive Photography Theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure in all versions via the index.php file and inclusion of a vulnerable version of TimThumb. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including the full path of the WordPress installation.

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.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in Chocolate WP * 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. No fixed build of this theme is recorded for Chocolate WP yet, so installs running * stay exposed until the vendor ships one.

Remediation

No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.

How does WordSec protect against this?

No patched version is recorded yet, so there is nothing to update to; WordSec's vulnerability alerts flag this record the moment that changes.

Alerts

External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4c5dd7a4-0e9c-4e1e-8385-2e76b7b9b02e

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CVSS Vector

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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