CVE-2023-4634

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-09-06. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 86%
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 86%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion and Remote Code Execution in versions up to, and including, 3.09. This is due to insufficient controls on file paths being supplied to the 'mla_stream_file' parameter from the ~/includes/mla-stream-image.php file, where images are processed via Imagick(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to supply files via FTP that will make directory lists, local file inclusion, and remote code execution possible.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
93
EG Risk 93/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation86% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
EPSS PROB
86%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
86% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 6, 2023

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 12, 2026
Fix referenced — no release confirmed yet.
Web page

Blog: CVE-2023-4634 - Tricky Unauthenticated RCE on Wordpress Media Library Assistant Plugin - Patrowl

https://patrowl.io/blog-wordpress-media-library-rce-cve-2023-4634/
Web page

GitHub - Patrowl/CVE-2023-4634: CVE-2023-4634 · GitHub

https://github.com/Patrowl/CVE-2023-4634/

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 34× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 83 of 103 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 17 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 20 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-22 19:41 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-22 19:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-21 20:50 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-21 20:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
  6. 2026-10-20 21:57 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-20 21:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-19 23:07 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-19 23:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
  11. 2026-10-18 22:33 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-18 22:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-18 07:48 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-17 23:30 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-17 23:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-17 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
  17. 2026-10-17 00:38 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-17 00:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-16 00:31 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-16 00:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-10-14 19:05 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-14 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-14 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
  24. 2026-10-13 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mv6-q53q-hqj8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-10-11 21:43 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-10 19:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
  4. 2026-10-06 15:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
  5. 2026-10-01 19:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
  6. 2026-09-30 16:32 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-28 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
  8. 2026-09-26 00:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
  9. 2026-09-24 14:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 86% · 99th percentile
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  35. 2026-07-23 02:27 UTCEG score recompute
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  37. 2026-07-22 14:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
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  56. 2026-06-12 23:10 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry, 1 GitHub PoC), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No release with the fix is confirmed, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is applied.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-51737
    Published Oct 9, 2023

    Media Library Assistant Wordpress Plugin - RCE and LFI

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCPatrowl/CVE-2023-4634
    Published Sep 5, 2023

    CVE-2023-4634

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2023/CVE-2023-4634.yaml
    Published Sep 5, 2023

    Media Library Assistant < 3.09 - Remote Code Execution/Local File Inclusion

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-4634?
CVE-2023-4634 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 6, 2023. The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion and Remote Code Execution in versions up to, and including, 3.09. This is due to insufficient controls on file paths being supplied to the 'mlastreamfile' parameter from the ~/includes/mla-stream-image.php file,…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-4634 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-4634 was published on September 6, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-4634 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-4634 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 86% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-4634?
CVE-2023-4634 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-4634?
A fix for CVE-2023-4634 is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but EchelonGraph has no release containing it on record. Check that reference and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains the fix and update to it; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

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