{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-0993 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-0993 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-0993 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches, published on 9 Jun 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-0993 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-0993 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches, published on 9 Jun 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-0993 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0993/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0993/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-0993","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0993/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-0993","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-5p6w-7m52-66g9"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify","security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress security plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated attackers can add arbitrary audit log entries and potentially trigger XSS due to missing authorization checks in the Shield Security plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"shield_security","vendor":"getshieldsecurity"}],"cvss":{"score":4.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-862","name":"Missing Authorization"}],"description":"The Shield Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization on the 'theme-plugin-file' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 17.0.17. This allows authenticated attackers to add arbitrary audit log entries indicating that a theme or plugin has been edited, and is also a vector for Cross-Site Scripting via CVE-2023-0992.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Shield Security \u003c= 17.0.17 - Missing Authorization","id":"CVE-2023-0993","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in francoisjacquet/rosariosis","id":"CVE-2023-0994"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Shield Security \u003c= 17.0.17 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2023-0992"},"products":["Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches"],"published":"2023-06-09","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking \u0026 Intrusion Prevention Security \u003c= 18.5.9 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion","id":"CVE-2023-6989","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-05"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Shield Security \u003c= 17.0.17 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2023-0992","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-09"},{"cvss_score":7.1,"headline":"WordPress Shield Security Plugin \u003c= 18.5.7 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2024-22163","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-01-31"},{"cvss_score":6.1,"headline":"Shield Security \u003c 20.0.6 - Reflected XSS","id":"CVE-2024-7313","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-08-26"},{"cvss_score":4.8,"headline":"Shield Security \u003c 13.0.6 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2022-0211","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-02-21"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["paultgoodchild"]},"summary":"Authenticated attackers can add arbitrary audit log entries and potentially trigger XSS due to missing authorization checks in the Shield Security plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0993/"}