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WPGraphQL <= 0.2.3 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Description

Without authorisation, weak access controls allow us to:

* Create administrative users
* Post comments on articles bypassing article restrictions and global moderation
* Retrieve content of password-protected posts/articles/pages
* Retrieve full list of registered users in the platform
* Retrieve full list of media, comments, themes and plugins with one simple request

The test was performed locally using WordPress 5.1.1 and WPGraphQL 0.2.3

Affects Plugins

wp-graphql
Fixed in version 0.3.0

References

CVE
CVE-2019-9879
CVE
CVE-2019-9880
CVE
CVE-2019-9881
URL
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/pwning-wordpress-graphql/
URL
https://github.com/pentestpartners/snippets/blob/master/wp-graphql0.2.3_exploit.py
URL
https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Classification

Type

MULTI

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Simone Quatrini

Submitter

Simone Quatrini

Submitter website
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/
Submitter twitter
d0td0tslash
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
2d451c89-91ce-4151-b3fb-56af15869644

Timeline

Publicly Published

2019-05-08 (about 4 years ago)

Added

2019-05-21 (about 4 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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