Vulnerability · Published Jul 18, 2023 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2021-4428what3words Autosuggest Plugin Setting class-w3w-autosuggest-public.php enqueue_scripts information disclosure

Low 2.7

In plain English

A low-severity information exposure in Autosuggest Plugin from what3words. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 15.8% (higher than 97% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)2.7Low

Exploit odds (30 days)15.8%top 3.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

A vulnerability has been found in what3words Autosuggest Plugin up to 4.0.0 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function enqueue_scripts of the file w3w-autosuggest/public/class-w3w-autosuggest-public.php of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 4.0.1 is able to address this issue. The patch is named dd59cbac5f86057d6a73b87007c08b8bfa0c32ac. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-234247.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
what3words	Autosuggest Plugin	4.0

Weakness: CWE-200 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

https://vuldb.com/?id.234247 vdb-entry, technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.234247 signature, permissions-required
https://github.com/what3words/wordpress-autosuggest-plugin/pull/20 issue-tracking
https://github.com/what3words/wordpress-autosuggest-plugin/commit/dd59cbac5f86057d6a73b87007c08b8bfa0c32ac patch
https://github.com/what3words/wordpress-autosuggest-plugin/releases/tag/v4.0.1 patch