# CVE-2023-6883: Easy Social Feed <= 6.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Settings Modification

> Authenticated subscribers can modify plugin settings and access tokens due to missing capability checks in AJAX functions.

- **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:** 11 Jan 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-m25v-grp2-qq63

## What is CVE-2023-6883?

CVE-2023-6883 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in sjaved Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress, published on 11 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Easy Social Feed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on multiple AJAX functions in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform unauthorized actions, such as modifying the plugin's Facebook and Instagram access tokens and updating group IDs.

Weakness: CWE-732 (Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource), CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-6883?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Easysocialfeed Easy Social Feed.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-6883?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6883 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-6883 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6883 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in sjaved Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress

- [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-2023-6883 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-6883 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in sjaved Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress, published on 11 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-2023-6883 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: sjaved Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress. 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-2023-6883/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6883/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6883
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6883
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-6883

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6883/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.