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CVE-2023-5991

40
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5991 is a critical vulnerability affecting the Hotel Booking Lite WordPress plugin versions prior to 4.8.5. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to download and delete arbitrary files on the server due to improper input validation, CSRF, and authorization checks. With a CVSS score of 9.8, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public Metasploit/ExploitDB modules, Nuclei templates exist, and the vulnerability has a high EPSS score, indicating a significant likelihood of future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:motopress:hotel_booking_lite:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2023-5991 · May 14, 2024
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0331 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media 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 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

wpscan.com / vulnerability/e9d35e36-1e60-4483-b8b3-5cbf08fcd49e
ExploitThird Party Advisory