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WordPress REST API User Enumeration Detection

🗓️ 28 Jul 2026 11:27:38Reported by KittySploitType 
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WordPress REST API exposes user data for authors of public post types.

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Code
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""The REST API exposed user data for all users who had authored a post of a public post type."""

from kittysploit import *
from lib.protocols.http.http_client import Http_client


class Module(Scanner, Http_client):
    __info__ = {
        'name': 'WordPress REST API User Enumeration Detection',
        'description': 'The REST API exposed user data for all users who had authored a post of a public post type. WordPress 4.7.1 limits this to only post types which have specified that they should be shown within the REST API.',
        'author': ['KittySploit Team'],
        'severity': 'low',
        'tags': ['web', 'scanner', 'vulnerability', 'cve2017', 'cve', 'wordpress', 'wp', 'edb', 'vuln'],
        'agent': {
            'risk': 'active',
            'effects': ['network_probe'],
            'expected_requests': 2,
            'reversible': True,
            'approval_required': False,
            'produces': ['tech_hints', 'risk_signals', 'endpoints'],
            'cost': 1.0,
            'noise': 0.3,
            'value': 1.0,
            'requires': {
                'min_endpoints': 0,
                'min_params': 0,
                'tech_hints_any': [],
                'tech_hints_all': [],
                'specializations_any': [],
                'risk_signals_any': [],
                'auth_session': False,
                'capabilities_any': [],
                'capabilities_all': [],
                'confidence_min': {},
                'confidence_min_any': {},
                'endpoint_pattern_any': [],
                'param_any': [],
                'api_surface_ready': False,
            },
            'chain': {
                'produces_capabilities': [
                    {
                        'capability': 'admin_surface',
                        'from_detail': '',
                    },
                ],
                'consumes_capabilities': [],
                'option_bindings': {},
                'suggested_followups': ['auxiliary/scanner/http/login_page_detector'],
            },
        },
        'references': [
            'https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-rest-api-user-enumeration/',
            'https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-user-enumeration/',
            'https://www.afteractive.com/wordpress-user-enumeration-vulnerability/',
        ],
    }

    def run(self):
        for path in ('/wp-json/wp/v2/users/', '/?rest_route=/wp/v2/users/'):
            r = self.http_request(method="GET", path=path, allow_redirects=False)
            if not r or r.status_code != 200:
                continue
            body = r.text or ""
            headers = "\n".join(f"{k}: {v}" for k, v in r.headers.items())
            body_all = ('"id":', '"name":', '"slug":',)
            header_any = ('application/json',)
            if (all(m in body for m in body_all)) and (any(m in headers for m in header_any)):
                self.set_info(
                    severity='low',
                    reason="WordPress REST API User Enumeration detected",
                    path=path,
                )
                return True
        return False

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28 Jul 2026 11:27Current
5.9Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.9
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