CVE-2023-5355 describes a critical path traversal vulnerability in the Awesome Support WordPress plugin, affecting versions prior to 6.1.5. This flaw allows an authenticated ticket submitter to delete arbitrary files on the server due to unsanitized file paths during temporary attachment deletion. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low privileges, leading to high impact on integrity and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 6.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:getawesomesupport:awesome_support:*:*:*:*:*: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:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.