{"id":"CVE-2023-5692","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-5692","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:10:09.068Z","title":"WordPress Core is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 6.4.3 via the redirect_guess_404_permalink function.","description":"WordPress Core is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including,  6.4.3 via the redirect_guess_404_permalink function. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to expose the slug of a custom post whose 'publicly_queryable' post status has been set to 'false'.","published":"2024-04-05T13:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T06:49:07.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-200"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00842,"percentile":0.57662,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.84%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/57645","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_post_publicly_viewable/","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_post_type_viewable/","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.3/src/wp-includes/canonical.php#L763","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e6f993b-ce09-4050-84a1-cbe9953f36b1?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/57645","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_post_publicly_viewable/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_post_type_viewable/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.3/src/wp-includes/canonical.php#L763","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e6f993b-ce09-4050-84a1-cbe9953f36b1?source=cve","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5692","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}