Essential Grid Gallery: Sensitive information exposure
Essential Grid Gallery is affected by sensitive information exposure. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.
- Component
- Essential Grid Gallery
- Plugin slug
essential-grid-gallery-wordpress-plugin- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 10, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Apr 10, 2024 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Essential Grid Gallery 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 Essential Grid Gallery WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1 via the on_front_ajax_action() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view private and password protected posts that may have private or sensitive information.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N