CVE-2023-28731

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-03-30. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2023-32369 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.8%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

update to a fixed version (>= 8.3.0) (from the CVE record's solution, Switzerland National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)) — apply it.

AnyMailing Joomla Plugin is vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution, when being granted access to the campaign's creation on front-office due to unrestricted file upload allowing PHP code to be injected.

This issue affects AnyMailing Joomla Plugin Enterprise in versions below 8.3.0.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

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.
Exploitation1.8% × 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: update to a fixed version (>= 8.3.0) (from the CVE record's solution, Switzerland National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
1.8%
EPSS %ILE
78th
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
1.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). 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, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: 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).

update to a fixed version (>= 8.3.0) (from the CVE record's solution, Switzerland National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

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.

The score's inputs: 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

March 30, 2023

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 10, 2026
Fix named in the CVE record's solution (Switzerland National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)).
Web page

SignalFisher | Continuously Learning Cybersecurity Testing Program

https://www.bugbounty.ch/advisories/CVE-2023-28731
Web page

AcyMailing – Email marketing platform – Email marketing platform for WordPress and Joomla

https://www.acymailing.com/change-log/

Weakness Classification(2)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 58× 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 its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). 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). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 275 rows 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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 175 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
  2. 2026-11-13 07:30 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-13 07:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
  5. 2026-11-12 05:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-12 05:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-11 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
  8. 2026-11-11 03:50 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  9. 2026-11-11 03:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-11-10 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
  11. 2026-11-10 01:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-11-10 01:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-11-09 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
  14. 2026-11-09 00:10 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-09 00:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-11-08 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
  17. 2026-11-07 22:20 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-11-07 22:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-11-07 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  21. 2026-11-06 20:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-11-06 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  24. 2026-11-05 18:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-11-05 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  1. 2026-11-04 16:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-04 16:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-04 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  6. 2026-11-03 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-02 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  9. 2026-11-02 13:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-11-01 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  12. 2026-11-01 11:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  15. 2026-10-31 09:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-30 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-30 07:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  21. 2026-10-29 05:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-28 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
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  24. 2026-10-28 03:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  27. 2026-10-27 01:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  28. 2026-10-26 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
  29. 2026-10-25 20:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  33. 2026-10-24 18:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  37. 2026-10-23 16:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  40. 2026-10-22 14:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  43. 2026-10-21 12:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  46. 2026-10-20 10:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  49. 2026-10-19 08:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  52. 2026-10-18 07:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  55. 2026-10-17 05:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  58. 2026-10-16 03:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  61. 2026-10-14 23:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2qgx-8w4f-jc5v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-28731?
CVE-2023-28731 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 30, 2023. AnyMailing Joomla Plugin is vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution, when being granted access to the campaign's creation on front-office due to unrestricted file upload allowing PHP code to be injected. This issue affects AnyMailing Joomla Plugin Enterprise in versions below 8.3.0.
When was CVE-2023-28731 made public?
CVE-2023-28731 was made public on March 30, 2023: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Switzerland National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on March 30, 2023. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-28731 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-28731 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (78th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-28731?
CVE-2023-28731 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-28731?
The CVE record's solution for CVE-2023-28731, written by its CNA Switzerland National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), names the fix: "update to a fixed version (>= 8.3.0)".

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