CVE-2023-47504
Published: 24 April 2024
Summary
CVE-2023-47504 is a medium-severity Improper Authentication (CWE-287) vulnerability in Elementor Website Builder. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 8.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2023-47504 is an improper authentication vulnerability, tracked under CWE-287, that affects the Elementor Website Builder plugin for WordPress. The flaw resides in insufficient access-control checks and impacts all versions through 3.16.4, allowing callers to reach functionality that should be restricted by ACLs. The issue carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5.
An authenticated user with contributor-level privileges can exploit the weakness over the network with low attack complexity. Successful exploitation grants the ability to read arbitrary attachment files stored by the WordPress installation, resulting in unauthorized disclosure of potentially sensitive content without any user interaction.
Public advisories published by Patchstack document the vulnerability as a contributor arbitrary-attachment read issue and point to the availability of a fix in versions newer than 3.16.4. Site operators are therefore advised to apply the latest plugin update to eliminate the exposure.
The associated EPSS score has remained modest, moving only from a low baseline to a current value of 0.0705 with a recorded peak of 0.0784.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-51615
Vulnerability details
Improper Authentication vulnerability in Elementor Elementor Website Builder allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Elementor Website Builder: from n/a through 3.16.4.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Detects unauthorized successful logons resulting from improper authentication implementations.
Documented procedures ensure personnel are trained on authentication mechanisms, tangibly lowering the risk of improper authentication being exploited.
Security awareness training instructs users on secure authentication practices and avoiding credential compromise.
Training on authentication mechanisms and best practices decreases the occurrence of improper authentication.
Non-repudiation requires strong authentication mechanisms to irrefutably attribute performed actions to specific individuals or processes.
Session content review can reveal authentication bypasses or failures in session establishment.
Review of authentication-related audit records can detect improper authentication mechanisms or bypasses.
Assessments check authentication mechanisms for correct implementation and effectiveness, reducing successful authentication bypass attempts.