{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3404 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-3404 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-3404 is a medium-severity vulnerability in metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities, published on 31 Aug 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-3404 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-3404 is a medium-severity vulnerability in metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities, published on 31 Aug 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3404 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: metagauss ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities. 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-2023-3404/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3404/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-3404","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3404/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-3404","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-r386-5hxv-47fg"],"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":"Attackers with admin access can decrypt user passwords due to hardcoded encryption keys in the ProfileGrid WordPress plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"hardcoded_credentials"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"profilegrid","vendor":"metagauss"}],"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-321","name":"Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key"}],"description":"The ProfileGrid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized decryption of private information in versions up to, and including, 5.5.0. This is due to the passphrase and iv being hardcoded in the 'pm_encrypt_decrypt_pass' function and used across all sites running the plugin. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions or above to decrypt and view users' passwords. If combined with another vulnerability, this can potentially grant lower-privileged users access to users' passwords.","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":"ProfileGrid \u003c= 5.5.0 - Hardcoded Encryption Key","id":"CVE-2023-3404","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"hardcoded_credentials","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service condition in M-Files Server","id":"CVE-2023-3405"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ProfileGrid \u003c= 5.5.1 - Missing Authorization to User Import","id":"CVE-2023-3403"},"products":["ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities"],"published":"2023-08-31","related":[{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"WordPress ProfileGrid plugin \u003c= 5.7.8 - SQL Injection vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-30490","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-03-29"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities \u003c= 5.9.4.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection","id":"CVE-2025-0724","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-22"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities","id":"CVE-2024-6411","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-07-10"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"ProfileGrid \u003c= 5.5.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Update","id":"CVE-2023-3713","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-07-18"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"ProfileGrid \u003c 5.3.1 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Password Reset","id":"CVE-2023-0940","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-03-20"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-15873","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-09-03"},{"cvss_score":8.5,"headline":"SQL injection in ProfileGrid","id":"CVE-2024-30491","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-03-29"}],"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":["metagauss"]},"summary":"Attackers with admin access can decrypt user passwords due to hardcoded encryption keys in the ProfileGrid WordPress plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3404/"}