🛡️ CVE-2023-1979
🟡 CVSS 4.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-863 NVD
4.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Web Stories for WordPress plugin supports the WordPress built-in functionality of protecting content with a password. The content is then only accessible to website visitors after entering the password. In WordPress, users with the "Author" role can create stories, but don't have the ability to edit password protected stories. The vulnerability allowed users with said role to bypass this permission check when trying to duplicate the protected story in the plugin's own dashboard, giving them access to the seemingly protected content. We recommend upgrading to version 1.32 or beyond commit  ad49781c2a35c5c92ef704d4b621ab4e5cb77d68 https://github.com/GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp/commit/ad49781c2a35c5c92ef704d4b621ab4e5cb77d68

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-863
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-05-08
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
web-stories — 1.32.0

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