CVE-2021-4428

Autosuggest vulnerability

CVSS

2.7

EPSS

15.8%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

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 vendor

What3words

Affected product

Autosuggest

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information

Published

2023-07-18

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 15.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-4428

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-4428.
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