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CVE-2018-20151 (High) detected in WordPress3.8 #138

Open mend-bolt-for-github[bot] opened 3 years ago

mend-bolt-for-github[bot] commented 3 years ago

CVE-2018-20151 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - WordPress3.8

WordPress, Git-ified. Synced via SVN every 15 minutes, including branches and tags! This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.

Library home page: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerable Source Files (1)

/wordpress/wp-activate.php

Vulnerability Details

In WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1, the user-activation page could be read by a search engine's web crawler if an unusual configuration were chosen. The search engine could then index and display a user's e-mail address and (rarely) the password that was generated by default.

Publish Date: 2018-12-14

URL: CVE-2018-20151

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

Base Score Metrics: - Exploitability Metrics: - Attack Vector: Network - Attack Complexity: Low - Privileges Required: None - User Interaction: None - Scope: Unchanged - Impact Metrics: - Confidentiality Impact: High - Integrity Impact: None - Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20151

Release Date: 2018-12-14

Fix Resolution: 5.1


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