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CVE-2023-48218

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-48218 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the Strapi Protected Populate Plugin prior to version 1.3.4. This flaw allowed unauthorized users to bypass field-level security on 'get' endpoints, enabling them to access and populate data they should not have had permission to view. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3, indicating a network-exploitable issue with low impact on confidentiality and no impact on integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:strapi:protected_populate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: strapi-plugin-protected-populateFixed in: 1.3.4

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-6h67-934r-82g7medium

Bypass of field access control in strapi-plugin-protected-populate

Nov 20, 2023

References

github.com / strapi-community/strapi-plugin-protected-populate/commit/05441066d64e09dd55937d9f089962e9ebe2fb39
Patch
github.com / strapi-community/strapi-plugin-protected-populate/releases/tag/v1.3.4
Release Notes
github.com / strapi-community/strapi-plugin-protected-populate/security/advisories/GHSA-6h67-934r-82g7
Vendor Advisory