vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: wp-mail-smtp: CVE-2024-6694: Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 19, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The WP Mail SMTP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to information exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.1. This is due to plugin providing the SMTP password in the SMTP Password field when viewing the settings. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrative-level access and above, to view the SMTP password for the supplied server. Although this would not be useful for attackers in most cases, if an administrator account becomes compromised this could be useful information to an attacker in a limited environment.

Solution

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