CVE-2023-5949

HIGH 7.5CVE-2023-5949 · Published 18/12/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-5949 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting smartcrawl (wpmudev).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.76%, higher than 55.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.8.3 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
smartcrawl wpmudev	`< 3.8.3`	`3.8.3`

The SmartCrawl WordPress plugin before 3.8.3 does not prevent unauthorised users from accessing password-protected posts' content.

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