CVE-2023-0453 (GCVE-0-2023-0453)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-21 08:50 – Updated: 2025-03-12 15:08
VLAI?
Summary
The WP Private Message WordPress plugin (bundled with the Superio theme as a required plugin) before 1.0.6 does not ensure that private messages to be accessed belong to the user making the requests. This allowing any authenticated users to access private messages belonging to other users by tampering the ID.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WP Private Message Affected: 0 , < 1.0.6 (custom)
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Credits
Veshraj Ghimire WPScan
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