Medium severity · published Jul 27, 2023
CVE-2023-3957
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…
4.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 43% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AP
Acf Photo Gallery Field · Navz
through 1.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3957
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3957
Patch
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/navz-photo-gallery/tags/1.9/includes/acf_photo_gallery_save.php#L42
Patch
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2943404/navz-photo-gallery#file0
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/689511e0-1355-4fcb-8a72-d819abc8e9a3?source=cve
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