WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Shareaholic < 9.7.6 - Information Disclosure

Description

The plugin does not have proper authorisation check in one of the AJAX action, available to unauthenticated (in v < 9.7.5) and author+ (in v9.7.5) users, allowing them to call it and retrieve various information such as the list of active plugins, various version like PHP, cURL, WP etc.

Proof of Concept

https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=shareaholic_debug_info

In v < 9.7.5, unauthenticated users can access it, in 9.7.5 it's only available to author roles and above

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 9.7.6

References

Classification

Type
SENSITIVE DATA DISCLOSURE
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Brandon James Roldan
Submitter
Brandon James Roldan
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-07-04 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-07-04 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-04-08 (about 1 years ago)

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