# CVE-2023-48740: WordPress Easy Social Feed plugin <= 6.5.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

> Attackers can bypass access controls in the Easy Social Feed WordPress plugin to perform unauthorized actions.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 29 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pvx9-87pp-p3xm

## What is CVE-2023-48740?

CVE-2023-48740 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Sajid Javed Easy Social Feed, published on 9 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Sajid Javed Easy Social Feed easy-facebook-likebox allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Easy Social Feed: from n/a through <= 6.5.1.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-48740?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Easysocialfeed Easy Social Feed.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-48740?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-48740 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-48740 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-48740 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Sajid Javed Easy Social Feed

- [CVE-2024-30180](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30180/): WordPress Easy Social Feed plugin <= 6.5.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-1278](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1278/): Cross-site scripting in Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2021-25120](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25120/): Easy Social Feed < 6.2.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-1213](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1213/): Easy Social Feed <= 6.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2022-4474](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4474/): Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box < 6.4.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-48740 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-48740 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Sajid Javed Easy Social Feed, published on 9 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-48740 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Sajid Javed Easy Social Feed. 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-2023-48740/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-48740/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-48740
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48740
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-48740

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-48740/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.