CVE-2023-47619: Audiobookshelf Server-Side Request Forgery and Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. In versions 2.4.3 and prior, users with the update permission are able to read arbitrary files, delete arbitrary files and send a GET request to arbitrary URLs and read the response. This issue may lead to Information Disclosure. As of time of publication, no patches are available.

Affected products

advplyr audiobookshelf: through 2.4.3

References

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/blob/d7b2476473ef1934eedec41425837cddf2d4b13e/server/controllers/AuthorController.js#L66
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-203_GHSL-2023-204_audiobookshelf/
https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/blob/d7b2476473ef1934eedec41425837cddf2d4b13e/server/controllers/AuthorController.js#L66
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-203_GHSL-2023-204_audiobookshelf/

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