Vulnerability CVE-2020-11027


Published: 2020-04-30   Modified: 2020-05-01

Description:
In affected versions of WordPress, a password reset link emailed to a user does not expire upon changing the user password. Access would be needed to the email account of the user by a malicious party for successful execution. This has been patched in version 5.4.1, along with all the previously affected versions via a minor release (5.3.3, 5.2.6, 5.1.5, 5.0.9, 4.9.14, 4.8.13, 4.7.17, 4.6.18, 4.5.21, 4.4.22, 4.3.23, 4.2.27, 4.1.30, 4.0.30, 3.9.31, 3.8.33, 3.7.33).

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
WordPress Theme Medic v1.0.0 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Amirhossein Bahr...
19.06.2023

Type:

CWE-640

(Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.5/10
4.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-ww7v-jg8c-q6jw
https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-4-1/#security-updates
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677

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