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CVE-2023-2078

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-2078 affects the "Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin" for WordPress, allowing authenticated users with low privileges, like subscribers, to modify plugin settings due to missing capability checks in several functions. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a low-complexity attack that could lead to unauthorized data modification without impacting confidentiality or availability. While no active exploits, Metasploit modules, or public exploit code are currently available, and community discussion is minimal, organizations should still patch affected versions up to 3.7 to mitigate this risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:buymeacoffee:buy_me_a_coffee:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.3HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
42.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0055 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/buymeacoffee/trunk/admin/class-buy-me-a-coffee-admin.php
Exploit
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/buymeacoffee/trunk/includes/class-buy-me-a-coffee.php
Exploit
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset
Patch
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c1c218c6-1599-4dc9-846f-e0ef74821488
Third Party Advisory