Better Notifications for WP <= 1.8.6 - Email Address Disclosure

4.3
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2022-0345
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published January 31, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts WordPress plugin before 1.8.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF check in its bnfw_search_users AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users to call it and query for user e-mail prefixes (finding the first letter, then the second one, then the third one etc.).

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Vulnerability Details for Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts – Better Notifications for WP

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug bnfw (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.8.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 1.8.7
Patched Version
  • 1.8.7

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