# CVE-2023-2495: Greeklish-permalink < 3.5 - Unauthenticated Post Slug Update

> Unauthenticated attackers can modify post slugs due to missing authorization checks in the Greeklish-permalink WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Jul 2023
- **Updated:** 12 Nov 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pvx5-h7p4-ffvx

## What is CVE-2023-2495?

CVE-2023-2495 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Greeklish-permalink, published on 10 Jul 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Greeklish-permalink WordPress plugin through 3.3 does not implement correct authorization or nonce checks in the cyrtrans_ajax_old AJAX action, allowing unauthenticated and low-privilege users to trigger the plugin's functionality to change Post slugs either directly or through CSRF.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-2495?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Greeklish-Permalink Project Greeklish-Permalink.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-2495?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-2495 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-2495 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-2495 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-2495 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-2495 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Greeklish-permalink, published on 10 Jul 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-2495 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Greeklish-permalink. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2495/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2495/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2495
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2495
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2495

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2495/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.