# CVE-2023-6741: WP Customer Area < 8.2.1 - Subscriber+ Account Address Update

> Malicious users can edit other users' account addresses due to missing capability checks in AJAX 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:** 16 Jan 2024
- **Updated:** 20 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h7v4-v2xr-w9gx

## What is CVE-2023-6741?

CVE-2023-6741 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown WP Customer Area, published on 16 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The WP Customer Area WordPress plugin before 8.2.1 does not properly validate users capabilities in some of its AJAX actions, allowing malicious users to edit other users' account address.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-6741?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Marvinlabs Wp Customer Area.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-6741?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6741 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-6741 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6741 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown WP Customer Area

- [CVE-2023-6824](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6824/): WP Customer Area < 8.2.1 - Subscriber+ Account Address Leak (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-0665](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0665/): WP Customer Area <= 8.2.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2017-18519](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-18519/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-12280](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12280/): WP Customer Area <= 8.2.4 - Event Log Deletion via CSRF (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2024-12436](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12436/): WP Customer Area <= 8.2.4 - Bulk Delete via CSRF (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-6741 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-6741 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown WP Customer Area, published on 16 Jan 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-2023-6741 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown WP Customer Area. 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-2023-6741/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6741/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6741
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6741
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-6741

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6741/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.