CVE-2023-2716: Groundhogg

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Groundhogg plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ajax_upload_file' function in versions up to, and including, 2.7.9.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to upload a file to the contact, and then lists all the other uploaded files related to the contact.

Affected products

• Groundhogg Groundhogg: up to and including 2.7.9.8

Published 2023-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.