CVE-2023-6257 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Inline Related Posts WordPress plugin before 3.6.0 is missing authorization in an AJAX action to ensure that users are allowed to see the content of the posts displayed, allowing any authenticated user, such as subscriber to retrieve the content of password protected posts

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.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Data443	Inline Related Posts

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:data443:inline_related_posts:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/19a86448-8d7c-4f02-9290-d9f93810e6e1/

History

Fri, 09 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Data443 Data443 inline Related Posts
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:data443:inline_related_posts::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Data443 Data443 inline Related Posts

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description	The Inline Related Posts WordPress plugin before 3.6.0 does not ensure that post content displayed via an AJAX action are accessible to the user, allowing any authenticated user, such as subscriber to retrieve the content of password protected posts	The Inline Related Posts WordPress plugin before 3.6.0 is missing authorization in an AJAX action to ensure that users are allowed to see the content of the posts displayed, allowing any authenticated user, such as subscriber to retrieve the content of password protected posts

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-04-11T05:00:02.030Z

Updated: 2025-03-26T20:47:15.800Z

Reserved: 2023-11-22T14:31:47.285Z

Link: CVE-2023-6257

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:28:20.199Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-04-11T05:15:47.090

Modified: 2025-05-09T13:38:51.153

Link: CVE-2023-6257

Redhat

No data.

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