{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-1979 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-1979 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-1979 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Google Web Stories for WordPress, published on 8 May 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-1979 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-1979 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Google Web Stories for WordPress, published on 8 May 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-1979 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Google Web Stories for WordPress. 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-2023-1979/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1979/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-1979","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1979/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-1979","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-p77r-crfj-p4f9"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read","security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Authors can bypass password protection to access protected Web Stories content via the duplication feature.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"auth_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Google","cpe":[{"product":"web_stories","vendor":"google"}],"cvss":{"score":4.9,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-863","name":"Incorrect Authorization"}],"description":"The Web Stories for WordPress plugin supports the WordPress built-in functionality of protecting content with a password. The content is then only accessible to website visitors after entering the password. In WordPress, users with the \"Author\" role can create stories, but don't have the ability to edit password protected stories. The vulnerability allowed users with said role to bypass this permission check when trying to duplicate the protected story in the plugin's own dashboard, giving them access to the seemingly protected content. We recommend upgrading to version 1.32 or beyond commit  ad49781c2a35c5c92ef704d4b621ab4e5cb77d68 https://github.com/GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp/commit/ad49781c2a35c5c92ef704d4b621ab4e5cb77d68","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Auth bypass in Web Stories for WordPress plugin","id":"CVE-2023-1979","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"auth_bypass","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Auth bypass in Remote Desktop Manager","id":"CVE-2023-1980"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ShiftController Employee Shift Scheduling \u003c= 4.9.25 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via Query String","id":"CVE-2023-1978"},"products":["Web Stories for WordPress"],"published":"2023-05-08","related":[{"cvss_score":9.6,"headline":"Web Stories \u003c= 1.24.0 - Server Side Request Forgery","id":"CVE-2022-3708","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-10-28"}],"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":"2025-01-28","vendors":["Google"]},"summary":"Authors can bypass password protection to access protected Web Stories content via the duplication feature.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1979/"}