CVE-2023-37999 is a critical Improper Privilege Management vulnerability affecting HasThemes HT Mega plugin versions up to and including 2.2.0, allowing for Privilege Escalation. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog, Nuclei templates for this vulnerability exist, indicating readily available exploit code. Despite this, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hasthemes:ht_mega:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:* | ||
<= 2.2.0CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:hasthemes:ht_mega:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.