Email address disclosure via unauthorized author pagination
Published Sep 5, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
Missing authorization in wpWax Directorist before 7.3.1 allows remote attackers to obtain every WordPress user's email address. The directorist_author_pagination AJAX action renders author cards containing email addresses without checking authorization. An unauthenticated HTTP request is sufficient, and the reported consequence is limited to disclosure of user email addresses.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in wpWax Directorist before 7.3.1 allows remote attackers to obtain every WordPress user's email address. The directorist_author_pagination AJAX action renders author cards containing email addresses without checking authorization. An unauthenticated HTTP request is sufficient, and the reported consequence is limited to disclosure of user email addresses.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-2376
- Published
- Sep 5, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- wpWax
- Product
- Directorist
- Classifications
- CWE-862, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 5, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Is a vulnerable build present?
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- Affected versionversion=7.3.1 <7.3.1
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What is affected?
Published CVSS scores
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Attacks
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Public exploit references
- Unauthenticated author-pagination requestfunctional · validated
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