CVE-2019-9879
CVE-2019-9879
Vexday Risk Score
72High priority
SSVC decision (CISA)
Act
Exploitation + impact → act immediately
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).
CVSS —EPSS 46.6%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei simMetasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
21 May 2019Public PoC
10 Jun 2019Published on NVD
Recommendation: Patch as soon as possible — active exploitation confirmed.
The WPGraphQL 0.2.3 plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to register a new user with admin privileges, whenever new user registrations are allowed. This is related to the registerUser mutation.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 2
cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/153025/WordPress-WPGraphQL-0.2.3-Authentication-Bypass-Information-Disclosure.htmlunverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/46886unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153025/WordPress-WPGraphQL-0.2.3-Authentication-Bypass-Information-Disclosure.htmlhttps://github.com/pentestpartners/snippets/blob/master/wp-graphql0.2.3_exploit.pyhttps://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql/releases/tag/v0.3.0https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9282https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/pwning-wordpress-graphql/