A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in WTF up to 0.18.x on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). Affected is an unknown functionality of the file config.yml of the component Permission. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-275. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

WTF before 0.19.0 does not set the permissions of config.yml, which might make it easier for local attackers to read passwords or API keys if the permissions were misconfigured or were based on unsafe OS defaults.

The weakness was presented 08/28/2019. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-15716 since 08/28/2019. The attack needs to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

Upgrading to version 0.19.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• WTF

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• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18

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