THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-17574
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-17574

Popup Maker vulnerability

CVSS
9.1
EPSS
9.3%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in the Popup Maker plugin before 1.8.13 for WordPress. An unauthenticated attacker can partially control the arguments of the do_action function to invoke certain popmake_ or pum_ methods, as demonstrated by controlling content and delivery of popmake-system-info.txt (aka the "support debug text file").
Affected vendor
Code Atlantic
Affected product
Popup Maker
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Published
2019-10-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 9.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-17574

  • Confirm whether Code Atlantic Popup Maker is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-17574.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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