CVE-2023-5314 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the WP EXtra plugin for WordPress, specifically versions up to and including 6.2. It allows authenticated attackers, even those with subscriber-level permissions, to send arbitrary emails from the affected site's mail server due to a missing capability check in the 'test-email' section of the register() function. The CVSS score is 4.3, indicating a low-privileged attacker can exploit this with low complexity over the network, resulting in a potential impact of low integrity. There is currently 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpvnteam:wp_extra:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.