Author Box, Guest Author and Co-Authors for Your Posts – Molongui <= 4.7.4 - Information Exposure via ma_debug

5.3
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2023-7014
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published January 16, 2024
Last Updated February 5, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The Author Box, Guest Author and Co-Authors for Your Posts – Molongui plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.4 via the 'ma_debu' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including post author emails and names if applicable.

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Vulnerability Details for Author Box, Guest Author and Co-Authors for Your Posts – Molongui

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug molongui-authorship (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.7.5, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.7.4
Patched Version
  • 4.7.5

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