CVE-2024-43990
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability (CVE-2024-43990) was discovered in StylemixThemes Masterstudy LMS Starter theme versions up to 1.1.8. The vulnerability was reported by Peng Zhou and published on August 29, 2024. This security issue allows unauthenticated users to access sensitive information through log file exposure (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-532 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) or user interaction (UI:N). The scope is unchanged (S:U) with low confidentiality impact (C:L) and no impact on integrity (I:N) or availability (A:N) (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to view sensitive information that is normally not available to regular users. This exposed data could potentially be used to exploit other weaknesses in the system (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.1.9 of the Masterstudy LMS Starter theme. Users are recommended to update to version 1.1.9 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).

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