CVE-2023-44998 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting the Category Meta plugin (versions <= 1.2.8) by multiple authors, including josecoelho and Randy Hoyt. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a high potential for impact, as an unauthenticated attacker could trick a user into performing unintended actions, leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:randyhoyt:category_meta:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.