CVE-2023-6696
Popup Builder – Create highly converting, mobile friendly marketing popups <= 4.3.1 - Missing Authorization and Nonce Exposure
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Popup Builder – Create highly converting, mobile friendly marketing popups. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to a missing capability check on several functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.1. While some functions contain a nonce check, the nonce can be obtained from the profile page of a logged-in user. This allows subscribers to perform several actions including deleting subscribers and perform blind Server-Side Request Forgery.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.47% · top 59% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Weakness
Affected products
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9f86ec30-7a9d-4c36-8559-bde331c8b958?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/popup-builder/tags/4.2.3/com/classes/Ajax.php (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3096000/popup-builder/trunk/com/classes/Ajax.php (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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