CVE-2023-38218 Incorrect Authorization - Customer account takeover

What is CVE-2023-38218?

CVE-2023-38218 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Adobe Commerce, published on 13 Oct 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.7-beta1 (and earlier), 2.4.6-p2 (and earlier), 2.4.5-p4 (and earlier) and 2.4.4-p5 (and earlier) are affected by an Incorrect Authorization . An authenticated attacker can exploit this to achieve information exposure and privilege escalation.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-38218?

12 open source packages ship an affected version, including magento/community-edition and magento/project-community-edition. It affects 2 products.

Products include Adobe Commerce, Adobe Magento.

How do I fix CVE-2023-38218?

Upgrade magento/community-edition to a fixed version for your release line: 2.4.4-p6, 2.4.5-p5, 2.4.6-p3 or 2.4.7-beta2.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2023-38218 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38218 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Commerce

• CVE-2026-75650 Adobe Commerce and Magento Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-34102 Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE) Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-24086 Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source Improper Input Validation Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-48356 Adobe Commerce and Magento Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Exploited Critical 9.3
• CVE-2026-71362 Adobe Commerce and Magento Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability Exploited Critical 9.1

All Adobe Commerce vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-rpc7-gf58-v3x2.