CVE-2018-20151

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Information disclosure

7.5CVSS HIGH

Summary

In WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1, the user-activation page could be read by a search engine's web crawler if an unusual configuration were chosen. The search engine could then index and display a user's e-mail address and (rarely) the password that was generated by default.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactHigh

Integrity impactNone

Availability impactNone

Exploit probability (EPSS)7%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

WordPress

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

NVD record
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.9Advisory
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/Advisory
https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-0-1/Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9174Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106220Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00019.htmlAdvisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4401Advisory
https://www.zdnet.com/article/wordpress-plugs-bug-that-led-to-google-indexing-some-user-passwords/Advisory