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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:motopress:hotel_booking_lite:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.