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CVE-2020-7047

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

The WordPress plugin, WP Database Reset through 3.1, contains a flaw that gave any authenticated user, with minimal permissions, the ability (with a simple wp-admin/admin.php?db-reset-tables[]=users request) to escalate their privileges to administrator while dropping all other users from the table.

Affected products

• webfactory Database Reset: through 3.1

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-database-reset/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/10028
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/01/easily-exploitable-vulnerabilities-patched-in-wp-database-reset-plugin/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-database-reset/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/10028
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/01/easily-exploitable-vulnerabilities-patched-in-wp-database-reset-plugin/

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