CVE-2023-5454 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Templately WordPress plugin before 2.2.6 does not properly authorize the `saved-templates/delete` REST API call, allowing unauthenticated users to delete arbitrary posts.

Published: 2023-11-06

Score: 7.5 High

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

Templately

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2.2.6

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:templately:templately:*:*:*:*:*: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-2023-57768	The Templately WordPress plugin before 2.2.6 does not properly authorize the `saved-templates/delete` REST API call, allowing unauthenticated users to delete arbitrary posts.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00758.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1854f77f-e12a-4370-9c44-73d16d493685

History

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:45:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Templately Templately

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-11-06T20:40:20.122Z

Updated: 2025-02-26T21:16:22.092Z

Reserved: 2023-10-07T00:58:57.728Z

Link: CVE-2023-5454

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:59:44.749Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-06T21:15:09.937

Modified: 2025-02-26T22:15:13.807

Link: CVE-2023-5454

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-862

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