Description

The Watu Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 via the watu-userinfo shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive user meta data which can include session tokens and user emails.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-0872

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 4.3

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

Affected Products

Vendor: prasunsen

Product: Watu Quiz

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.15% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 32.36% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-27 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0872
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/acc261eb-fafa-4e9d-b7ab-a449f14a7638?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3036986/

Timeline