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CVE-2023-6042: Getwid < 2.0.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Email Sending to Admin

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.56% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: Unknown Getwid 2.0.3.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Getwid 2.0.3 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Any unauthenticated user may send e-mail from the site with any title or content to the admin

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jan 8, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.5% · 47th percentile

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Action score

30

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
motopressgetwid

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • motopress getwidbefore 2.0.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Unknown Getwid

    • before 2.0.3affected · semver

Same product

motopress: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2023-1895Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks <= 1.8.3 - Authenticated(Subscriber+) Server Side Request Forgery
    38Monitor
  • CVE-2024-10872Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks <= 2.0.12 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2024-6489Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks <= 2.0.10 - Missing Authorization to Google API key update
    21Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-1910Jun 9, 2023 · Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks <= 1.8.3 - Improper Authorization via get_remote_templates REST endpoint
    17Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2023-6959Feb 5, 2024 · Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks <= 2.0.4 - Missing Authorization to Recaptcha API Key Modification
    17Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2023-6963Feb 5, 2024 · Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks <= 2.0.4 - Captcha Bypass
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Unknown Getwid2.0.3Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
// Route added later skips the middlewareapp.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

ts
const admin = express.Router();admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
admin.post("/config", updateConfig);app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Change log

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