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Bypass the Stop User Enumeration WordPress Plugin
From: Andrew Horton <horton.nz () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 00:56:58 +1100
Stop User Enumeration is a WordPress plugin that provides protection against an unauthenticated attacker gaining a list of all WordPress users. This information can aid an attacker in further attacks against the website including brute-force password guessing attacks. This can be performed using wp-scan. Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-user-enumeration/ Version: 1.2.4 (latest) According to the full disclosure methodology I have publicly disclosed this at the same time as notifying the vendor. Advisory ------------- An attacker can bypass the username enumeration protection by using POST requests. The protection currently only stops GET requests to enumerate users. By sending POST requests with the body of "author=1" and incrementing the number over successive requests, the entire set of WordPress users can be enumerated. The WordPress user information is disclosed in the HTML response body, unlike being disclosed in the redirect header, as with GET requests. 1. POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.wordpress.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 8 author=1 Andrew Horton (urbanadventurer) www.morningstarsecurity.com Visit my meta-aggregator of security news at http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/news/
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