Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-45760

Medium

Published: 02 January 2025

Published
02 January 2025
Modified
29 April 2026
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 0.0050 66.6th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-45760 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability in Gvectors Wpdiscuz. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 33.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2023-45760 is a missing authorization vulnerability, classified under CWE-862, in the wpDiscuz WordPress plugin developed by AdvancedCoding. The flaw enables exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions of wpDiscuz from n/a through 7.6.3.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N). Low-privileged users with network access can exploit it with low attack complexity and no user interaction, achieving low-impact unauthorized disclosure of confidential information without affecting integrity or availability.

The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this broken access control vulnerability in wpDiscuz version 7.6.3 at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wpdiscuz/vulnerability/wordpress-wpdiscuz-plugin-7-6-3-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Missing Authorization vulnerability in AdvancedCoding wpDiscuz wpdiscuz allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects wpDiscuz: from n/a through <= 7.6.3.

CWE(s)
CWE-862

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

Missing authorization (CWE-862) in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation via T1190 to achieve unauthorized data disclosure by low-privileged network users.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

gvectors
wpdiscuz
≤ 7.6.4

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Enforces approved authorizations for access to information and system resources, directly mitigating the missing authorization vulnerability in wpDiscuz.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Requires timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws like CVE-2023-45760 in wpDiscuz through version 7.6.3.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match
prevent

Applies least privilege to restrict low-privileged users from exploiting the access control vulnerability for unauthorized disclosure.

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