Vulnerability · Published Dec 14, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-35234

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 60.4% (higher than 99.1% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)60.4%top 0.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack tooling2Metasploit, Nuclei

Official description

The easy-wp-smtp plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows Administrator account takeover, as exploited in the wild in December 2020. If an attacker can list the wp-content/plugins/easy-wp-smtp/ directory, then they can discover a log file (such as #############_debug_log.txt) that contains all password-reset links. The attacker can request a reset of the Administrator password and then use a link found there.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://blog.nintechnet.com/wordpress-easy-wp-smtp-plugin-fixed-zero-day-vulnerability/ x_refsource_MISC
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-wp-smtp/#developers x_refsource_MISC