CVE-2023-26540 — Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Favethemes Houzez allows Privileg

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Favethemes Houzez allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Houzez: from n/a through 2.7.1.

01What is this vulnerability?

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Favethemes Houzez allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Houzez: from n/a through 2.7.1.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Favethemes	Houzez	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-05-17T06:41:55.360Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T11:53:52.908Z

09References

• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/houzez/wordpress-houzez-theme-2-7-…