Information disclosure in WordPress - CVE-2018-20151

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Information disclosure in WordPress - CVE-2018-20151

Published: December 13, 2018 / Updated: December 17, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16529
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20151
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the user activation screen can be indexed by search engines in some uncommon configurations. A remote attacker can access email addresses, and in some rare cases, default generated passwords.


Affected software

WordPress
wordpress (Debian package)

How to mitigate CVE-2018-20151

Update to version 5.0.1.

WordPress - update to 5.0.1
wordpress (Debian package) - update to 4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u5

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