Co-Authors Plus 3.5 - 3.5.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE Not available
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published June 7, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug co-authors-plus (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 3.5 - 3.5.1
Patched Version
  • 3.5.2
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