Remove\/hide Author\, Date\, Category Like Entry MetaWordPress extension · Remove\/hide Author\, Date\, Category Like Entry Meta Project
CVE-2023-41650
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Venugopal Remove/hide Author, Date, Category Like Entry-Meta plugin <= 2.1 versions.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Venugopal Remove/hide Author, Date, Category Like Entry-Meta WordPress plugin versions 2.1 and below allows attackers to trick authenticated administrators into performing unintended modifications to post metadata display settings.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Remove\/hide Author\, Date\, Category Like Entry MetaWordPress extension
<= 2.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Locate the plugin installationAccess your WordPress site via FTP or file manager and navigate to wp-content/plugins/ - look for a folder containing 'remove-hide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta' or similar namingAffected if The plugin directory exists in your plugins folder
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Identify the plugin versionOpen the main plugin PHP file (typically named remove-hide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta.php or similar) and locate the version declaration in the plugin header commentAffected if The version string shows 2.1 or lower, or if no version is declared and the plugin name matches the affected product
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Verify plugin is activeLog into WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins > Installed Plugins - confirm the 'Remove/hide Author, Date, Category Like Entry Meta' plugin shows as ActiveAffected if The plugin appears in the active plugins list in WordPress admin
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Check for state-changing functionalityNavigate to the plugin settings page in WordPress admin (usually under Settings or the plugin's own menu) where display settings for post metadata can be modifiedAffected if The plugin provides forms or interfaces to modify author, date, or category display settings - these are the endpoints that lack CSRF protection
Your environment is affected if the Remove/hide Author, Date, Category Like Entry Meta plugin is installed, active, and running at version 2.1 or below, with its settings interface accessible to administrators.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all state-changing operations (forms and AJAX endpoints) within the plugin and enforce SameSite cookie attributes.
Fix this in Remove\/hide Author\, Date\, Category Like Entry Meta
Scoped from the published advisory
- Consultation2.0 h
- Implementation4.0 h
- Testing2.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2023-41650 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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