WordPress OceanWP theme <= 3.4.1 - Authenticated Local File Inclusion vulnerability
Priority HIGH 68CWE-22Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · Low · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in OceanWP allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects OceanWP: from n/a through 3.4.1.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00684 52nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-23700
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vfvm-79qm-696f
References
More oceanwp vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-03118 Ocean Extra < 2.0.5 - Admin+ PHP Objection Injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2023-00711 Ocean Extra < 2.1.3 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Post Content Disclosure CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2025-08191 OceanWP < 4.1.2 - Subscriber+ Limited Option Update CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
- TI-2025-08139 OceanWP <= 4.0.9 - 4.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Ocean Extra Plugin Installation CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
- TI-2025-03051 Ocean Extra <= 2.4.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-26823 WordPress Ocean Extra Plugin <= 2.2.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2023-23700 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-23700 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vfvm-79qm-696f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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