CVE-2023-5359

Description

The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 2.7.5 via Google OAuth API secrets stored in plaintext in the publicly visible plugin source. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to impersonate W3 Total Cache and gain access to user account information in successful conditions. This would not impact the WordPress users site in any way.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d89a534-978e-4fd8-be3a-5137bdc22dc9?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3156426/w3-total-cache/tags/2.7.6/PageSpeed_Api.php

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/trunk/PageSpeed_Api.php#L39

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3