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CVE-2023-5692
WordPress Core <= 6.4.3 - Sensitive Information Exposure via redirect_guess_404_permalink
Medium5.3EPSS 0.84%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
WordPress Core is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 6.4.3 via the redirect_guess_404_permalink function. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to expose the slug of a custom post whose 'publicly_queryable' post status has been set to 'false'.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.84% · top 42% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
WordPress Foundation · WordPress
- affected ≤ 6.4.3
References (5)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e6f993b-ce09-4050-84a1-cbe9953f36b1?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.3/src/wp-includes/canonical.php#L763 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_post_publicly_viewable/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_post_type_viewable/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/57645 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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