CVE-2020-36723

ListingPro - WordPress Directory & Listing Theme < 2.6.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

2020-12-17 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.6.1
Affected Theme: ListingPro - WordPress Directory & Listing Theme
Affected Version: < 2.6.1
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2020-36723

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At a glance

CVE-2020-36723 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the ListingPro - WordPress Directory & Listing Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions < 2.6.1. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.6.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2020, reported by Jerome Bruandet.

Vulnerability Overview

The ListingPro - WordPress Directory & Listing Theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure in versions before 2.6.1 via the ~/listingpro-plugin/functions.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including usernames, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses and user post counts.

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 ListingPro - WordPress Directory & Listing Theme < 2.6.1 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 ListingPro - WordPress Directory & Listing Theme the fix is 2.6.1: builds < 2.6.1 are affected, anything from 2.6.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.6.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: ListingPro - WordPress Directory & Listing Theme 2.6.1 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36723 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b9b21f8e-8d66-4d3e-a383-bea20a3c4498 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36723

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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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