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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: activitypub: CVE-2023-3706: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 25, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The ActivityPub plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 0.17.0 due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This can allow authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to expose potentially sensitive post titles (e.g., draft and private post titles).

Solution

activitypub-plugin-cve-2023-3706
Title
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