CVE-2023-3957 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The ACF Photo Gallery Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an insufficient restriction on the 'apg_profile_update' function in versions up to, and including, 1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above, to update the user metas arbitrarily. The meta value can only be a string.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

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 0.00053.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Navz	Acf Photo Gallery Field

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:navz:acf_photo_gallery_field:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-44582	The ACF Photo Gallery Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an insufficient restriction on the 'apg_profile_update' function in versions up to, and including, 1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above, to update the user metas arbitrarily. The meta value can only be a string.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/navz-photo-gallery/tags/1.9/includes/acf_photo_gallery_save.php#L42
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2943404/navz-photo-gallery#file0
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/689511e0-1355-4fcb-8a72-d819abc8e9a3?source=cve

History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-07-27T06:54:16.133Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T19:38:28.320Z

Reserved: 2023-07-26T17:43:11.122Z

Link: CVE-2023-3957

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:08:50.778Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-27T07:15:10.253

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:18:23.980

Link: CVE-2023-3957

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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