Name: CVE-2020-7048: Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2020-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2020-7048, CWE-306, CVSS 9.1, EPSS 0.22928

The WordPress plugin, WP Database Reset through 3.1, contains a flaw that allowed any unauthenticated user to reset any table in the database to the initial WordPress set-up state (deleting all site content stored in that table), as demonstrated by a wp-admin/admin-post.php?db-reset-tables[]=comments URI.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.1
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H)
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Wordpress Database Reset Plugin	—	Update wordpress-database-reset plugin to version 3.15, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	Jan 16, 2020

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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