CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-1888
High (8.8) in wpwax directorist. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The Directorist plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to an arbitrary user password reset in versions up to, and including, 7.5.4. This is due to a lack of validation checks within login.php. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to reset the password of an arbitrary user and gain elevated (e.g., administrator) privileges.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 62% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- wpwax:directorist
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2920100/directorist
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/06/critical-security-update-directorist-wordpress-plugin-patches-two-high-risk-vulnerabilities/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01943559-e05b-4dca-b322-d880b2729ee7?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2920100/directorist
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01943559-e05b-4dca-b322-d880b2729ee7?source=cve