Better Notifications for WP <= 1.8.6 - Email Address Disclosure

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

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug bnfw (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.7
Patched Version
  • 1.8.7
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