What is CVE-2023-5991?

CVE-2023-5991 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Motopress Hotel Booking Lite, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-12-26.

How severe is CVE-2023-5991?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-5991 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Path Traversal in Motopress Hotel Booking Lite

CVE-2023-5991

The Hotel Booking Lite WordPress plugin before 4.8.5 does not validate file paths provided via user input, as well as does not have proper CSRF and authorisation checks, allowing unauthenticated users to download and delete arbitrary files on the server

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.033 (87.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Motopress Hotel_booking_lite
Unknown Hotel Booking Lite — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5991?: CVE-2023-5991 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Motopress Hotel Booking Lite, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2023-5991?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-5991 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.