Vulnerability in softaculous SpeedyCache – Cache, Optimization, Performance

[ Description ]Official description

The SpeedyCache – Cache, Optimization, Performance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2 via the 'comment_author_*, comment_author_email_*' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract the full name and email address of returning commenters pre-filled into comment form input fields and persisted as the site-wide cached page by any unauthenticated attacker requesting the same public URL. The read-side handler in advanced-cache.php correctly skips cached delivery for requests carrying comment_author_* cookies, but this check is absent on the write path, meaning the cache poisoning is invisible to the victim commenter yet fully exploitable by any unauthenticated attacker with no cookies.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/speedycache/tags/1.4.2/main/advanced-cache.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/speedycache/tags/1.4.2/main/cache.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/speedycache/tags/1.4.2/main/cache.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/speedycache/tags/1.4.2/main/cache.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3734608/speedycache/trunk/main/cache.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3734609/speedycache
• www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c6b8d5ca-34e2-4d25-9185-7fcee790379d