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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2014-8607

Low
2.1/10

Summary

The XCloner plugin 3.1.1 for WordPress and 3.5.1 for Joomla! provides the MySQL username and password on the command line, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via the ps command.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • 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