Consider Author field for wordpress plugins when generating CPEs
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Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
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Found some examples in the wild where the
Authorfield (not just theAuthorURIfield) is useful when extracting potential vendors during CPE generation (see the code diff for the example). This means that there will generally be more CPEs for all wordpress plugins found, but this seems unavoidable as there is non guidance around populating these fields for wordpress (nor for providing CPEs for this ecosystem in NVD).Additionally, this encodes
wordpressas the target software, as several of the CVEs I've found correctly encode this, and wordpress plugins tend to be a bountiful source of false positives when searching by CPE.