CVE-2022-43504

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Dec 5, 2022
Updated: Apr 24, 2025
Reserved: Oct 22, 2022

Description

Improper authentication vulnerability in WordPress versions prior to 6.0.3 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to obtain the email address of the user who posted a blog using the WordPress Post by Email Feature. The developer also provides new patched releases for all versions since 3.7.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WordPressWordPress.org	versions prior to 6.0.3Affected

References

https://wordpress.org/download/
https://wordpress.org/news/2022/10/wordpress-6-0-3-security-release/
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN09409909/index.html

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