SQL Injection Vulnerability in Horizontal Scrolling Announcement Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-4999

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Horizontal scrolling announcement
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 October 2023

Summary

The Horizontal Scrolling Announcement plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to inadequate escaping of user-supplied parameters in its [horizontal-scrolling] shortcode. This issue affects versions up to and including 9.2. Authenticated attackers with subscriber-level permissions can exploit this flaw to inject additional SQL queries into existing ones, potentially leading to the extraction of sensitive information from the database.

Affected Version(s)

Horizontal scrolling announcement * <= 9.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/horizontal-scr...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lana Codes
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