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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2023-0159 in the critical feed json

Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder < 1.9.1 - Unauthenticated RCE

published 2023-02-13 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-12249

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
55.5%
EPSS 55.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

The Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder WordPress plugin before 1.9.1 does not validate a parameter passed to the php extract function when loading templates, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to override the template path to read arbitrary files from the hosts file system. This may be escalated to RCE using PHP filter chains.

Patch / fix

  • Unknown Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder 1.9.1

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-52085)

Exploit prediction

55.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-52085 Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder 1.9.0 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) webapps, 2025-03-19
  • Nuclei template Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder < 1.9.1 - Unauthenticated RCE nuclei detection template
  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/239ea870-66e5-4754-952e-74d4dd60b809 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Unknown Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.