What is CVE-2023-51697?

CVE-2023-51697 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Advplyr Audiobookshelf, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2023-12-27.

How severe is CVE-2023-51697?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

SSRF in Advplyr Audiobookshelf

CVE-2023-51697

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Prior to 2.7.0, Audiobookshelf is vulnerable to unauthenticated blind server-side request (SSRF) vulnerability in `podcastUtils.js`. This vulnerability has been addressed in version 2.7.0. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)

Published 2023-12-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (25.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 26th percentile — 25.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Advplyr Audiobookshelf — versions < 2.7.0
Audiobookshelf

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

References

github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/security/advisories/GHSA-jhjx-c3wx-q2x7 (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/commit/f2f2ea161ca0701e1405e737b0df0f96296e4f… (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-51697?: CVE-2023-51697 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Advplyr Audiobookshelf, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2023-12-27.
How severe is CVE-2023-51697?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.