Enhanced Text Widget <= 1.5.8 — Missing Authorization
CVE-2023-23823Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.5.8Update to 1.5.9 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Enhanced Text Widget enhanced-text-widget
- Affected≤ 1.5.8
- Patched in1.5.9
Update to 1.5.9 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.5.8. Version 1.5.9 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Enhanced Text Widget.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.5.9, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Enhanced Text Widget to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Muhammad Daffa.
The Enhanced Text Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to a missing capability check on one of its functions in versions up to, and including, 1.5.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to make use of this functionality.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
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