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CVE-2023-48708

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-48708 is a medium-severity vulnerability in CodeIgniter Shield, an authentication and authorization provider for CodeIgniter 4. It allows for the logging of raw authentication tokens during successful login attempts. An attacker with access to the log table could obtain these tokens, enabling them to impersonate users. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and resulting in high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:codeigniter:shield:1.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:codeigniter:shield:1.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:codeigniter:shield:1.0.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:codeigniter:shield:1.0.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:codeigniter:shield:1.0.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0063 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: codeigniter4/shieldFixed in: 1.0.0-beta.8
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-j72f-h752-mx4wmedium

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log

Nov 23, 2023

References

codeigniter4.github.io / shield/getting_started/authenticators
Product
github.com / codeigniter4/shield/commit/7e84c3fb3411294f70890819bfe51781bb9dc8e4
Patch
github.com / codeigniter4/shield/security/advisories/GHSA-j72f-h752-mx4w
MitigationVendor Advisory