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WP Mail Log <= 1.1.2 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Read

CVE-2023-5672Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.1.2Update to 1.1.3 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WP Mail Log wp-mail-log

  1. Affected≤ 1.1.2
  2. Patched in1.1.3

Update to 1.1.3 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.1.2. Version 1.1.3 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 Mail Log.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.1.3, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP Mail Log to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to dc11.

The WP Mail Log plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.2 via the includeAttachment parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to include and read arbitrary files on the server.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in WP Mail Log

All 8
More vulnerabilities in WP Mail Log
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.8Authenticated(Contributor+) Arbitrary File Upload
<1.1.3Update to 1.1.3
CVE-2023-51410
Medium6.4Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Data Viewing and Deletion
≤1.1.2Update to 1.1.3
CVE-2023-5644
High8.8Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL injection via key
≤1.1.2Update to 1.1.3
CVE-2023-5645
High7.2Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via id
≤1.1.2Update to 1.1.3
CVE-2023-5674
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get
≤1.9.2No patch available
CVE-2023-33999

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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