CVE-2023-41954 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in ProfilePress Membership Team ProfilePress allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects ProfilePress: from n/a through 4.13.1.

Published: 2024-05-17

Score: 8.6 High

EPSS: 16.7% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

ProfilePress Membership Team

ProfilePress

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	≤ 4.13.1

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:properfraction:profilepress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-46413	Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in ProfilePress Membership Team ProfilePress allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects ProfilePress: from n/a through 4.13.1.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.16721.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wp-user-avatar/wordpress-profilepress-plugin-4-13-1-unauthenticated-limited-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

History

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Properfraction Properfraction profilepress
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:properfraction:profilepress::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Properfraction Properfraction profilepress

Subscriptions

Properfraction Profilepress

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Patchstack

Published: 2024-05-17T06:54:21.852Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T19:09:49.421Z

Reserved: 2023-09-06T08:46:20.964Z

Link: CVE-2023-41954

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-06-03T14:18:37.659Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-17T07:15:59.533

Modified: 2025-06-09T20:57:24.757

Link: CVE-2023-41954

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-269

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