CVE-2023-4153 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The BAN Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 due to a missing capability check on the 'w3dev_save_ban_user_settings_callback' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify the plugin settings to access the ban and unban functionality and set the role of the unbanned user.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00144.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Webmedia	Ban Users

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:webmedia:ban_users:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ban-users/tags/1.5.3/include/ajax.php#L109
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ban-users/tags/1.5.3/include/ajax.php#L199
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/af6bd2db-47a4-4381-a881-d5f97a159f8d?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': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-09-13T02:54:12.332Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T19:29:17.777Z

Reserved: 2023-08-04T13:17:04.228Z

Link: CVE-2023-4153

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:17:11.909Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-13T03:15:08.730

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:34:29.707

Link: CVE-2023-4153

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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