CVE-2023-0159Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder < 1.9.1 - Unauthenticated RCE
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 55.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Nuclei templates1 template
- Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder < 1.9.1 - Unauthenticated RCE (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-0159.yamlSeverity high
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder 1.9.0 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 52085webapps, phppublished 19 Mar 2025Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/239ea870-66e5-4754-952e-74d4dd60b809 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 34 days later
· 34 days later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 55.5% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Unknown · Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder
- affected < 1.9.1
References
References1
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/239ea870-66e5-4754-952e-74d4dd60b809 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-12249 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-0159)Record last updated .