Autosuggest: Sensitive information exposure

Autosuggest is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.

CVE / CNA score 2.7 CVSS 3.1 · cna@vuldb.com

NVD score 7.5 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov

Component: Autosuggest
Plugin slug: autosuggest
Affected: See vendor advisory
Safe version: See mitigation notes
Published: Jul 18, 2023
Weakness: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

This CVE was published Jul 18, 2023 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Autosuggest to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical description

A vulnerability has been found in what3words Autosuggest Plugin up to 4.0.0 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function enqueue_scripts of the file w3w-autosuggest/public/class-w3w-autosuggest-public.php of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 4.0.1 is able to address this issue. The patch is named dd59cbac5f86057d6a73b87007c08b8bfa0c32ac. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-234247.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Update, patch or deactivate.

Technical description

Primary and upstream sources