PT-2018-15272 · WordPress · Wordpress

Sam Thomas · Published 2018-12-14 · Updated 2019-03-04 · CVE-2018-20151

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.9.9 WordPress versions 5.x prior to 5.0.1

Description The user-activation page could be accessed by a search engine's web crawler under certain configurations, potentially allowing the search engine to index and display a user's e-mail address and, in rare cases, the default-generated password.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 4.9.9, update to version 4.9.9 or later. For WordPress versions 5.x prior to 5.0.1, update to version 5.0.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20151

DLA-1673-1

DSA-4401-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 42

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/wp_crop_rce.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/brianwrf/WordPress_4.9.8_RCE_POC · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/synacktiv/CVE-2019-8942 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/nth347/CVE-2018-20148_exploit · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20151 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20150 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-0-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20147 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20151 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1673-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4401 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20151 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20151 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4401-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory