CVE-2023-4059 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Profile Builder WordPress plugin before 3.9.8 lacks authorisation and CSRF in its page creation function which allows unauthenticated users to create the register, log-in and edit-profile pages from the plugin on the blog

Published: 2023-09-04

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Profile Builder

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 3.9.8

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:cozmoslabs:profile_builder:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-53950	The Profile Builder WordPress plugin before 3.9.8 lacks authorisation and CSRF in its page creation function which allows unauthenticated users to create the register, log-in and edit-profile pages from the plugin on the blog

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00102.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fc719d12-2f58-4d1f-b696-0f937e706842

History

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Cozmoslabs Profile Builder

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-09-04T11:26:55.285Z

Updated: 2025-03-06T16:06:23.944Z

Reserved: 2023-08-01T16:18:46.718Z

Link: CVE-2023-4059

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:17:12.019Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-04T12:15:10.110

Modified: 2025-03-06T16:15:43.977

Link: CVE-2023-4059

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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