CVE-2023-51516

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-51516 is a Missing Authorization vulnerability affecting the Business Directory Plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 6.3.9. With a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), this flaw allows a low-privileged attacker to achieve limited integrity and availability impacts without user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 6.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:businessdirectoryplugin:business_directory::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

2.5

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.31%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

23.7%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 21,957 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/business-directory-plugin/wordpress-business-directory-plugin-easy-listing-directories-for-wordpress-plugin-6-3-9-broken-access-control-vulnerability

Third Party Advisory