WP Security Audit Log <= 3.1.1 — Sensitive Information Disclosure
CVE-2018-8719Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.1.1Update to 3.1.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
WP Activity Log wp-security-audit-log
- Affected≤ 3.1.1
- Patched in3.1.2
Update to 3.1.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.1.1. Version 3.1.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP Activity Log.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 3.1.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WP Activity Log to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Colette Chamberland.
An issue was discovered in the WP Security Audit Log plugin 3.1.1 for WordPress. Access to wp-content/uploads/wp-security-audit-log/* files is not restricted. For example, these files are indexed by Google and allows for attackers to possibly find sensitive information.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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