{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40209 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-40209 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-40209 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Himalaya Saxena Highcompress Image Compressor, published on 12 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-40209 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-40209 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Himalaya Saxena Highcompress Image Compressor, published on 12 Jun 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-2023-40209 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Himalaya Saxena Highcompress Image Compressor. 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-2023-40209/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40209/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-40209","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40209/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-40209","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-fh66-vp6h-x77p"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Attackers can bypass authorization checks in the Highcompress Image Compressor plugin, potentially accessing restricted functionality without proper permissions.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Patchstack","cpe":[{"product":"highcompress_image_compressor","vendor":"himalayasaxena"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-862","name":"Missing Authorization"}],"description":"Missing Authorization vulnerability in Himalaya Saxena Highcompress Image Compressor.This issue affects Highcompress Image Compressor: from n/a through 6.0.0.","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 Highcompress Image Compressor plugin \u003c= 6.0.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-40209","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"WordPress SB Child List Plugin \u003c= 4.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)","id":"CVE-2023-40210"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"WordPress Stock Ticker Plugin \u003c= 3.23.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-40208"},"products":["Highcompress Image Compressor"],"published":"2024-06-12","related":[],"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":["Himalaya Saxena"]},"summary":"Attackers can bypass authorization checks in the Highcompress Image Compressor plugin, potentially accessing restricted functionality without proper permissions.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40209/"}