Email Subscribers: A security weakness
Email Subscribers is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Email Subscribers
- Plugin slug
email-subscribers- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 26, 2018
This CVE was published Jan 26, 2018 and is one of 20 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Email Subscribers 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
An issue was discovered in the "Email Subscribers & Newsletters" plugin before 3.4.8 for WordPress. Sending an HTTP POST request to a URI with /?es=export at the end, and adding option=view_all_subscribers in the body, allows downloading of a CSV data file with all subscriber data.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N