WordPress Product Category Tree plugin <= 2.5 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

published 2024-12-09 22 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-32774

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits: 0; none known

Missing Authorization vulnerability in AWESOME TOGI Product Category Tree allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Product Category Tree: from n/a through 2.5.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 22 mo ago (2024-12-09)

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected products

AWESOME TOGI Product Category Tree
awesometogi product_category_tree

Classification

Weakness

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/wordpress/plugin/product-category-tree/vulnerability/wordpress-product-category-tree-plugin-2-5-brok
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-29173
NVD CVE-2023-29173

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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.

Summary