CVE-2019-20203 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Authorized Addresses feature in the Postie plugin 1.9.40 for WordPress allows remote attackers to publish posts by spoofing the From information of an email message.

Published: 2020-01-01

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:postieplugin:postie:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2019-10757	The Authorized Addresses feature in the Postie plugin 1.9.40 for WordPress allows remote attackers to publish posts by spoofing the From information of an email message.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00666.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/V1n1v131r4/Exploiting-Postie-WordPress-Plugin-/blob/master/README.md
https://postieplugin.com/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/#developers
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/10002

History

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Subscriptions

Postieplugin Postie

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-01-01T21:59:46.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:39:09.163Z

Reserved: 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-20203

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-01-02T14:16:35.987

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:38:12.003

Link: CVE-2019-20203

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-290

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