CVE-2023-0889

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2023-0889 · Published 17/04/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-0889 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting themeflection numbers (metagauss).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.30%, higher than 22.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.0.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
themeflection numbers metagauss	`< 2.0.1`	`2.0.1`

Description

Themeflection Numbers WordPress plugin before 2.0.1 does not have authorisation and CSRF check in an AJAX action, and does not ensure that the options to be updated belong to the plugin. As a result, it could allow any authenticated users, such as subscriber, to update arbitrary blog options, such as enabling registration and set the default role to administrator

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/c39473a7-47fc-4bce-99ad-28d03f41e74e · Exploit

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