WP Database Reset <= 3.1 - Unauthenticated Database Reset

Improper Authentication
CVE CVE-2020-7048
CVSS Critical (9.1)
Publicly Published January 16, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

The WordPress plugin, WP Database Reset through 3.1, contains a flaw that allowed any unauthenticated user to reset any table in the database to the initial WordPress set-up state (deleting all site content stored in that table), as demonstrated by a wp-admin/admin-post.php?db-reset-tables[]=comments URI.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wordpress-database-reset (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1
Patched Version
  • 3.15
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