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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-6015

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the "Email Subscribers & Newsletters" plugin before 3.4.8 for WordPress. Sending an HTTP POST request to a URI with /?es=export at the end, and adding option=view_all_subscribers in the body, allows downloading of a CSV data file with all subscriber data.

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