Co-Authors Plus 3.5 - 3.5.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

7.5
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVSS 7.5 (High)
Publicly Published June 7, 2022
Last Updated August 7, 2023
Researcher Douglas Johnson

Description

The Co-Authors Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure via the /wp/v2/coauthors REST API input in versions 3.5 and 3.5.1. This is due to insufficient capability checking that allows unauthorized users to access the endpoint and retrieve guest authors email addresses.

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Vulnerability Details for Co-Authors Plus

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug co-authors-plus (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.5.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • 3.5 - 3.5.1
Patched Version
  • 3.5.2

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