WordPress Themes Information Disclosure

By
Jijith Rajan
Published on
26 Jun 2018
Vulnerability

In old versions of WordPress, there are various themes created by ThemeMakers. These themes suffered a major vulnerability called information disclosure vulnerability. Information disclosure vulnerability is a vulnerability met, when an application fails to properly protect sensitive information from attackers. The attackers include users that are not supposed to access these information in normal privileges. An attack can be successfully exploited using browser.

Impact

The impact include:-

  • The attacker will get full privileges.
  • Possible data breach

Mitigation / Precaution


Written by
Jijith Rajan
Jijith Rajan
Cyber Security Engineer
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