Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-3601

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 14 August 2023

Published
14 August 2023
Modified
05 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0019 40.9th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-3601 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Webfactoryltd Simple Author Box. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 40.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Simple Author Box WordPress plugin before 2.52 does not verify a user ID before outputting information about that user, leading to arbitrary user information disclosure to users with a role as low as Contributor.

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

webfactoryltd
simple author box
≤ 2.52

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References