auth0/wordpress · Security
Auth0 WordPress Plugin has Insufficient Entropy in Cookie Encryption
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vfpx-q664-h93m
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 8.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-331 · Insufficient Entropy