CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It affects WordPress. Its EPSS score suggests a 55.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated.
CVE
CVE-2023-0159
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
55.74%
WordPress
Original NVD Description
The Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder WordPress plugin before 1.9.1 does not validate a parameter passed to the php extract function when loading templates, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to override the template path to read arbitrary files from the hosts file system. This may be escalated to RCE using PHP filter chains.