CVE-2015-20067
published 2021-11-01CVE-2015-20067: The WP Attachment Export WordPress plugin before 0.2.4 does not have proper access controls, allowing unauthenticated users to download the XML data that holds…
PriorityP258high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCHINAN
EXPLOIT
EPSS
8.19%
94.2th percentile
The WP Attachment Export WordPress plugin before 0.2.4 does not have proper access controls, allowing unauthenticated users to download the XML data that holds all the details of attachments/posts on a Wordpress
Affected
1 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| wp_attachment_export_project | wp_attachment_export | < 0.2.4 | 0.2.4 |
Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote
- →Flag any unauthenticated (no session cookie / no WordPress auth) GET request to /wp-admin/tools.php that includes the query parameter wp-attachment-export-download=true, regardless of the content= value. ↗
- →Successful exploitation leaks plaintext passwords for password-protected posts inside the returned XML; monitor outbound XML responses from tools.php for the presence of wp:author_id and wp:author_email fields as a data-loss indicator. ↗
- ·The Nuclei template uses stop-at-first-match across two request variants (content=attachment and content=); only the first matching response is evaluated, so detection tooling should probe both URL forms independently to avoid false negatives. ↗
- ·The vulnerability is fully remediated in plugin version 0.2.4; detections should be scoped to installations running versions earlier than 0.2.4. ↗
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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Nuclei
WP Attachment Export < 0.2.4 - Unrestricted File Download
nuclei·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-20067 [HIGH] WP Attachment Export < 0.2.4 - Unrestricted File Download
WP Attachment Export < 0.2.4 - Unrestricted File Download
The plugin does not have proper access controls, allowing unauthenticated users to download the XML data that holds all the details of attachments/posts on a Wordpress
powered site. This includes details of even privately published posts and password protected posts with their passwords revealed in plain text.
Template:
id: CVE-2015-20067
info:
name: WP Attachment Export < 0.2.4 - Unrestricted File Download
author: r3Y3r53
severity: high
description: |
The plugin does not have proper access controls, allowing unauthenticated users to download the XML data that holds all the details of attachments/posts on a Wordpress
powered site. This includes details of even privately published posts and password protected posts with their pas
No writeups or analysis indexed.
https://github.com/espreto/wpsploit/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/wp_attachment_export_file_download.rbhttps://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jul/73https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d1a9ed65-baf3-4c85-b077-1f37d8c7793ahttps://github.com/espreto/wpsploit/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/wp_attachment_export_file_download.rbhttps://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jul/73https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d1a9ed65-baf3-4c85-b077-1f37d8c7793a
2021-11-01
Published