{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23888 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-23888 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-23888 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Rank Math SEO, published on 17 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-23888 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-23888 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Rank Math SEO, published on 17 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23888 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Rank Math SEO. 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-2023-23888/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23888/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-23888","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23888/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-23888","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-4cwg-v2m9-rqc9"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress SEO plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Attackers can read arbitrary files on the server via path traversal in the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Patchstack","cpe":[{"product":"seo","vendor":"rankmath"}],"cvss":{"score":7.6,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Rank Math Rank Math SEO allows Path Traversal.This issue affects Rank Math SEO: from n/a through 1.0.107.2.","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":"WordPress Rank Math SEO plugin \u003c= 1.0.107.2 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-23888","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"WordPress Quick Paypal Payments Plugin \u003c= 5.7.25 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-23889"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"WordPress Easy Google Analytics for WordPress plugin \u003c= 1.6.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-23887"},"products":["Rank Math SEO"],"published":"2024-05-17","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Missing authorization in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-11514","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-04-07"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings \u003c= 1.0.228 - Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection","id":"CVE-2024-9314","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-10-05"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"WordPress Rank Math SEO plugin \u003c= 1.0.95 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-36376","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-09-09"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Missing authorization in Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings","id":"CVE-2024-9161","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-10-05"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"WordPress Rank Math SEO Plugin \u003c= 1.0.119 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-32600","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-08-05"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Missing authorization in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-14786","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-08-15"}],"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":"2026-04-28","vendors":["Rank Math"]},"summary":"Attackers can read arbitrary files on the server via path traversal in the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23888/"}