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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2012-1786

Medium
5/10

Summary

The Media Upload form in the Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator plugin before 2.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to obtain the installation path via unknown vectors.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • 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