CVE-2023-6983

Impact

The Display custom fields in the frontend – Post and User Profile Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 via the vg_display_data shortcode due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to retrieve potentially sensitive post meta.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3021133%40shortcode-to-display-post-and-user-data&new=3021133%40shortcode-to-display-post-and-user-data&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08d43c67-df40-4f1a-a351-803e59edee13?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3021133%40shortcode-to-display-post-and-user-data&new=3021133%40shortcode-to-display-post-and-user-data&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08d43c67-df40-4f1a-a351-803e59edee13?source=cve