Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify AWP Classifieds site < 4.4.9
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ExploitCraft request referencing payment transaction
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ExecutionBypass listing ownership check
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ImpactRead private contact email on listing
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation is triggered on the plugin's ad submission page when a request references a payment transaction; the plugin fails to verify that the requester is authorized to view the referenced listing, so no authentication, account, or user interaction is required (PR:N/UI:N). The practical requirement is simply a reachable site running AWP Classifieds before version 4.4.9 that has listings with stored private contact emails. The limiting factors are the narrow impact - only the private contact email of a listing is exposed, not credentials, content modification, or site control - and that the affected product is a specific optional WordPress plugin rather than a default or core component, so only sites that installed and use this plugin for listings are affected. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but low-to-moderate priority issue, and the signals are largely consistent with a modest real-world risk. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity access with no user interaction, which raises concern, but the impact is narrow: only confidentiality is affected and only at a Low level (C:L/I:N/A:N), reflecting disclosure of a single private contact email per listing rather than full data compromise. EPSS is low at 0.19% (8th percentile), and SSVC lists Exploitation as 'none' (i.e. not observed in the wild) with only 'partial' technical impact, so despite 'Automatable: yes' there is no evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability is NOT on CISA KEV. Public exploit code exists (WPScan), which raises the practical likelihood of opportunistic scanning above what EPSS alone suggests, but POC availability is distinct from active exploitation and should not be read as the latter. Net: a real, patchable information-disclosure flaw worth remediating, but not an emergency - the low impact scope and absence of KEV/active-exploitation signals keep it below critical-triage thresholds. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An unauthenticated attacker crafts a request to the ad submission page referencing a payment transaction identifier, bypassing the ownership check that should restrict listing visibility, and reads the private contact email stored on an arbitrary listing. Because the attack is network-based, low-complexity, and requires no authentication or user interaction, it can be automated to harvest emails across many listings. Publicly available exploit code (via WPScan) lowers the barrier to carrying this out. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
Unauthenticated information disclosure in the AWP Classifieds WordPress plugin before version 4.4.9 lets remote attackers read the private contact email address stored on any listing by submitting a request to the ad submission page that references a payment transaction. The plugin omits the ownership/authorisation check on that code path, so no account, login, or user interaction is required (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, score 5.3); the only exposure is the listing's private contact email, not credentials, content modification, or site control. Publicly available exploit code exists and WPScan published a proof-of-concept write-up, but there is no KEV entry and EPSS is low at 0.19% (8th percentile), so this is a genuine low-to-moderate priority issue affecting only sites running this optional plugin with listings that store private contact emails.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade AWP Classifieds to 4.4.9 or later, which restores the authorization/ownership check on the ad submission page when a payment transaction is referenced; confirm the update in the WordPress plugin dashboard or by redeploying the fixed plugin version. Where the plugin is installed but not actually used for classified listings, deactivating and removing it entirely is the cleanest fix with no functional trade-off. If immediate patching is not possible, urgent compensating controls are: (1) temporarily deactivate the plugin, which fully removes exposure but also disables ad submission and listing display; (2) if the site can tolerate it, stop storing raw private contact emails in listing records and route buyer contact through a contact form instead, accepting that legitimately protected contact details may no longer be visible to listing owners; and (3) place the plugin's ad submission endpoint behind site-level authentication or a WAF rule that rejects requests referencing payment transactions from unauthenticated clients, understanding that this can break the legitimate paid-ad submission flow for anonymous users. Given the CVSS score of 5.3, the partial technical impact per SSVC, and no KEV-confirmed exploitation, patch on a normal maintenance cadence rather than as an emergency, but treat the plugin as deprecated/unused if the site has no classified-listing requirement.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
AWP Classifieds is a third-party WordPress plugin that adds classified-listing and paid-ad functionality to a site; the vulnerable component is the plugin's ad submission page combined with logic that handles references to a payment transaction. When a request carries a payment-transaction reference, the plugin retrieves and renders the associated listing without confirming that the requester owns or is otherwise entitled to view it, so an ownership/authorisation check that should gate the listing data is effectively skipped. This is classified as CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor) rather than a classic missing-authorisation CWE: the root cause is failure to verify that a request is authorised to view a listing before disclosing its private contact email field. The CPE entry (cpe:2.3:a:unknown:awp_classifieds:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) is generic and does not pin a vendor, so version identification should be done through the plugin's own changelog/version constant or the WPScan advisory (before 4.4.9). The CVSS vector supplied and independently assessed by us is consistent: network-reachable, low attack complexity, PR:N (unauthenticated), UI:N (no user interaction), Scope Unchanged, and Confidentiality:Low only, which matches the narrow disclosure of a single stored email field. WordPress runs the plugin in PHP with database access, so the practical exploitation surface is any reachable site that has AWP Classifieds installed and active below 4.4.9.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Missing authorization check allows remote unauthenticated low-complexity access (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); only a private email leaks, so C:L and I:N/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
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4DescriptionCVE.org
The AWP Classifieds WordPress plugin before 4.4.9 does not verify that a request is authorised to view a listing when a payment transaction is referenced, allowing unauthenticated attackers to bypass the ownership check on the ad submission page and read the private contact email stored on any listing.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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