CVE record · CVE-2023-5561

WordPress < 6.3.2 - Unauthenticated Post Author Email Disclosure

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.043 · 91st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: WPScan) at 16 Oct 2023, 19:39 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
WordPress	WordPress	affected 6.3.0 to before 6.3.2 semver affected 6.2.0 to before 6.2.3 semver affected 6.1.0 to before 6.1.4 semver affected 6.0.0 to before 6.0.6 semver affected 5.9.0 to before 5.9.8 semver affected 5.8.0 to before 5.8.8 semver affected 5.7.0 to before 5.7.10 semver affected 5.6.0 to before 5.6.12 semver affected 5.5.0 to before 5.5.13 semver affected 5.4.0 to before 5.4.14 semver affected 5.3.0 to before 5.3.16 semver affected 5.2.0 to before 5.2.19 semver and 4 more Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2023-5561
CNA: WPScan
Tags: WordPress
Published: 16 Oct 2023
Updated: 23 Apr 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.3	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.043, the 91st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 16 Oct 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

wpscan.com/blog/email-leak-oracle-vulnerability-addressed-in-wordpress-6-3-2/ technical-description
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00014.html
wpscan.com/vulnerability/19380917-4c27-4095-abf1-eba6f913b441 exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

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