WP Reset <= 2.0 - Sensitive Information Exposure due to Insufficient Randomness

Use of Insufficiently Random Values
CVE CVE-2023-6799
CVSS Medium (5.9)
Publicly Published March 26, 2024
Last Updated July 29, 2024
Researcher Justin Kennedy
Description

The WP Reset – Most Advanced WordPress Reset Tool plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 via the use of insufficiently random snapshot names. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including site backups by brute-forcing the snapshot filenames. Please note that the vendor does not plan to do any further hardening on this functionality.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-reset (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0
Patched Version
  • 2.01
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