Easy Registration Forms: Sensitive information exposure
Easy Registration Forms is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.
- Component
- Easy Registration Forms
- Plugin slug
easy-registration-forms- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 23, 2023
This CVE was published Sep 23, 2023 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Easy Registration Forms 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.
Technical description
The Easy Registration Forms for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Disclosure via the 'erforms_user_meta' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 due to insufficient controls on the information retrievable via the shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level capabilities or above, to retrieve arbitrary sensitive user meta.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N