Widget Options — Extended <= 5.1.0 & Widget Options <= 4.0.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Disclosure
CVE-2024-35691Published · Updated Action summary
Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets: Affected: ≤4.0.1Update to 4.0.2 or newer
Widget Options - Extended: Affected: <5.1.3Update to 5.1.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-200 Information Exposure
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets widget-options
- Affected≤ 4.0.1
- Patched in4.0.2
Update to 4.0.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 4.0.1. Version 4.0.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
Widget Options - Extended extended-widget-options
- Affected< 5.1.3
- Patched in5.1.3
Update to 5.1.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 5.1.3. Version 5.1.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 4.0.2, or a newer patched version
- Update to version 5.1.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Dave Jong.
The Widget Options - Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to 5.1.3 (exclusive) for Widget Options - Extended and all versions up to, and including, 4.0.1 for Widget Options. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including private/draft posts and user meta. CVE-2024-35690 was also assigned to this issue (specifically for the free version)
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 4.3
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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- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
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