CVE-2023-3706 (GCVE-0-2023-3706)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-16 19:39 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:11
VLAI?
Title
ActivityPub for WordPress < 1.0.0 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Post Title Disclosure
Summary
The ActivityPub WordPress plugin before 1.0.0 does not ensure that post titles to be displayed are public and belong to the plugin, allowing any authenticated user, such as subscriber to retrieve the title of arbitrary post (such as draft and private) via an IDOR vector
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/daa4d93a-f8b1-48… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown ActivityPub Affected: 0 , < 1.0.0 (custom)
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Credits
Erwan LR (WPScan) WPScan
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