CVE-2023-6140 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Essential Real Estate WordPress plugin before 4.4.0 does not prevent users with limited privileges on the site, like subscribers, from momentarily uploading malicious PHP files disguised as ZIP archives, which may lead to remote code execution.

Published: 2024-01-08

Score: 8.8 High

EPSS: 1.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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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

Essential Real Estate

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 4.4.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:g5plus:essential_real_estate:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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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 0.01095.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c837eaf3-fafd-45a2-8f5e-03afb28a765b

History

No history.

Subscriptions

G5plus Essential Real Estate

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-08T19:00:36.658Z

Updated: 2024-09-04T15:36:41.937Z

Reserved: 2023-11-14T22:50:43.564Z

Link: CVE-2023-6140

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:21:17.679Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-08T19:15:10.027

Modified: 2026-06-17T06:50:08.043

Link: CVE-2023-6140

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-434
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

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