Author Box, Guest Author and Co-Authors for Your Posts – Molongui <= 4.7.4 - Information Exposure via ma_debug

Description

The Author Box, Guest Author and Co-Authors for Your Posts – Molongui plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.4 via the 'ma_debu' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including post author emails and names if applicable.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.65% · top 49% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.

Weakness

• CWE-359 Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-359 and its CVEs
• CWE-668 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-668 and its CVEs

Affected products

• molongui · Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress

  • affected ≤ 4.7.4

References (2)

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/538e9ce3-2d48-44ad-bd08-8eead3ef15c3?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3019084/ (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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2023-7014](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2023-7014.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-7014)

Record last updated 8 Apr 2026, 16:53 UTC.