Skip to content
Fencer Intel
high 8.2

GHSA-vfpx-q664-h93m json

Auth0 WordPress Plugin has Insufficient Entropy in Cookie Encryption

published 7mo ago modified 7mo ago

cvss
8.2
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

### Impact In applications built with the Auth0 PHP SDK, cookies are encrypted with insufficient entropy, which may result in threat actors brute-forcing the encryption key and forging session cookies.

### Am I Affected? Consumers are affected if their application meets the following preconditions: - It is using the Auth0 WordPress Plugin, versions between 5.0.0-BETA0 and 5.5.0 - Auth0 WordPress plugin using the Auth0-PHP SDK versions between 8.0.0 to 8.18.0.

### Resolution Upgrade Auth0/wordpress to version 5.6.0 or greater.

Patch / fix

  • packagist auth0/wordpress 5.6.0

Is GHSA-vfpx-q664-h93m in your dependencies? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist auth0/wordpress
>=5.0.0-BETA0, <5.6.0
5.6.0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.