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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2023-7320

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

The WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 7.8.2, due to improper CORS handling on the Store API's REST endpoints allowing direct external access from any origin. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive user information including PII(Personal Identifiable Information).

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published