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CVE-2023-6444· NVD / CVE Program· CNA WPScan

Seriously Simple Podcasting < 3.0.0 - Unauthenticated Administrator Email Disclosure

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • A ready-made attack module is public (Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.4% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 84.1% of all records.
  • 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 Seriously Simple Podcasting 3.0.0.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Seriously Simple Podcasting 3.0.0 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

The Seriously Simple Podcasting WordPress plugin before 3.0.0 discloses the Podcast owner's email address (which by default is the admin email address) via an unauthenticated crafted request.

MediumCVSS 5.3 · v3.1—Proof of concept Fix available
Published
Mar 11, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
2.4% · 84th percentile

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Action score

22

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 2.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

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VendorProduct
castosseriously simple podcasting

Affected versions

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

  • castos seriously simple podcastingbefore 3.0.0

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 Seriously Simple Podcasting

    • before 3.0.0affected · semver

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2024-9667Seriously Simple Podcasting <= 3.5.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via add_query_arg Parameter
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  • CVE-2024-25599WordPress Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin <= 3.0.2 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
    24Monitor
  • CVE-2025-49923WordPress Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin <= 3.11.1 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
    23Monitor
  • CVE-2025-66060WordPress Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin <= 3.13.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2025-66059WordPress Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin <= 3.13.0 - Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2022-4571Seriously Simple Podcasting < 2.19.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
    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 Seriously Simple Podcasting3.0.0Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

  • Nuclei detection template ×1
  • Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×1

Noroxi does not host or link to exploit code. Metasploit module names and Nuclei template ids are shown (names, not code); Exploit-DB entries and PoC repositories are given as counts only.

Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Nuclei detection templateNuclei template CVE-2023-6444 —
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHubstars:02024-08-07

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.

  1. Published
  2. First PoC+148 d
  3. TodayOct 17, 2026+950 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

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

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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
low · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-201 · Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

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