CVE-2023-4036 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Simple Blog Card WordPress plugin before 1.32 does not ensure that posts to be displayed via a shortcode are public, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber, to retrieve arbitrary post title and their content such as draft, private and password protected ones

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

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 0.00111.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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

Simple Blog Card

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.32

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:riverforest-wp:simple_blog_card:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Riverforest-wp Subscribe	Simple Blog Card Subscribe

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-53928	The Simple Blog Card WordPress plugin before 1.32 does not ensure that posts to be displayed via a shortcode are public, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber, to retrieve arbitrary post title and their content such as draft, private and password protected ones

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/de3e1718-c358-4510-b142-32896ffeb03f

History

Fri, 02 May 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-08-30T14:22:01.184Z

Updated: 2025-05-02T15:47:12.758Z

Reserved: 2023-08-01T08:05:12.025Z

Link: CVE-2023-4036

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:17:11.721Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-30T15:15:09.813

Modified: 2025-05-02T16:15:22.460

Link: CVE-2023-4036

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

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