CVE-2020-13764 — gravityforms
HIGHCVE-2020-13764 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Information Exposure vulnerability in wp-premium/gravityforms. A fix is available for wp-premium/gravityforms — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Gravity Forms plugin leak hashed passwords
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
common.php in the Gravity Forms plugin before 2.4.9 for WordPress can leak hashed passwords because user_pass is not considered a special case for a $current_user->get($property) call.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | wp-premium/gravityforms | all versions | 2.4.9composer require wp-premium/gravityforms:^2.4.9 |
Affected Products
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Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for wp-premium/gravityforms, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update wp-premium/gravityforms to 2.4.9 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2020-13764 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.
Frequently Asked Questions
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