Beaver Themer <= 1.4.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via shortcode

Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2023-6695
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published April 3, 2024
Last Updated July 29, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Beaver Themer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.9 via the 'wpbb' shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access and above, to extract sensitive data including arbitrary user_meta values.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug beaver-themer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.9
Patched Version
  • 1.4.9.1
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