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🛡️ CVE-2023-30544 — kiwi-tcms

🟢 CVSS 3.9 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-283 NVD
3.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

kiwi TCMS has possibility for user to update email address to unverified one

Impact

In previous versions of Kiwi TCMS users were able to update their email addresses via the "My profile" admin page. This page allowed them to change the email address registered with their account without the ownership verification performed during account registration.

Patches

With Kiwi TCMS v12.2 or later it is not possible to edit the email field associated with a user account!

Workarounds

No workaround exists.

References

Disclosed by [@novemberdad](https://huntr.dev/bounties/1714df73-e639-4d64-ab25-ced82dad9f85/).

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-30544 is classified as CWE-283: Unverified Ownership. The product does not properly verify that a critical resource is owned by the proper entity.

Affected software

CVE-2023-30544 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kiwi-tcms (fixed in 12.2)
  • kiwitcms (fixed in 12.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 April 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
huntr.dev
kiwitcms.org
github.com
huntr.dev
kiwitcms.org
huntr.com

Other advisories for this package

kiwi-tcms has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-283: Unverified Ownership) in other software:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-283
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kiwi-tcms — 12.2
kiwitcms — 12.2

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