🛡️ CVE-2023-3956
🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The InstaWP Connect plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data, modification of data and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'events_receiver' function in versions up to, and including, 0.0.9.18. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add, modify or delete post and taxonomy, install, activate or deactivate plugin, change customizer settings, add or modify or delete user including administrator user.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-07-27
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
instawp-connect 0.0.9.18

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