CVE-2023-6983: Josevega Display Custom Fields In The Frontend - Post And User Profile Fields

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Display custom fields in the frontend – Post and User Profile Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 via the vg_display_data shortcode due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to retrieve potentially sensitive post meta.

Affected products

• Josevega Display Custom Fields In The Frontend - Post And User Profile Fields: before 1.3.0 (fixed in 1.3.0)

Published 2024-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.