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CVE-2023-41954

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-41954 is an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in ProfilePress, affecting versions up to 4.13.1, which allows for unauthenticated privilege escalation. This high-severity flaw carries a CVSS score of 8.6, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to achieve significant impact on integrity and availability, and some impact on confidentiality. While not currently in the KEV catalog or actively exploited, a Nuclei template exists for unauthenticated privilege escalation, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:properfraction:profilepress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2023-41954 · Nov 30, 2025
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0140 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/wp-user-avatar/wordpress-profilepress-plugin-4-13-1-unauthenticated-limited-privilege-escalation-vulnerability
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