CVE-2019-9880
An issue was discovered in the WPGraphQL 0.2.3 plugin for WordPress. By querying the 'users' RootQuery, it is possible, for an…
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 34.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An issue was discovered in the WPGraphQL 0.2.3 plugin for WordPress. By querying the 'users' RootQuery, it is possible, for an unauthenticated attacker, to retrieve all WordPress users details such as email address, role, and username.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Nuclei templates1 template
- WPEngine WPGraphQL 0.2.3 - Unauthenticated User Information Disclosure (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2019/CVE-2019-9880.yamlSeverity critical
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin WPGraphQL 0.2.3 - Multiple Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 46886webapps, phppublished 21 May 2019Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 34.8% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9282 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153025/WordPress-WPGraphQL-0.2.3-Authentication-Bypass-Information-Disclosure.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/pwning-wordpress-graphql/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/pentestpartners/snippets/blob/master/wp-graphql0.2.3_exploit.py (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql/releases/tag/v0.3.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-19236 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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