🛡️ CVE-2023-5311
🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-862 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The WP EXtra plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the register() function in versions up to, and including, 6.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to modify the contents of the .htaccess files located in a site's root directory or /wp-content and /wp-includes folders and achieve remote code execution. CVE-2023-46623 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-25
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wp-extra 6.3

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