Stop User Enumeration plugin <1.3.9 - User Enumeration

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2017-1000226
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published May 16, 2017
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Mallory Adams
Description

The Stop User Enumeration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to User Enumeration in versions up to, and including, 1.3.8. This is due to a flaw that was found in the REST API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform a POST request in the REST API allows simulating different request types. As such, attackers can perform a POST request with the “users” string in the body of the request, and tell the REST API to act like it’s received a GET request.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug stop-user-enumeration (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.9
Patched Version
  • 1.3.9
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