SQL Injection Vulnerability in Vertical Marquee Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-5436

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Vertical Marquee Plugin
Vendor
CVE Published:
31 October 2023

What is CVE-2023-5436?

The Vertical Marquee plugin for WordPress suffers from a SQL injection vulnerability due to inadequate escaping of user-supplied parameters in its shortcode. This issue allows authenticated users with subscriber-level permissions and above to manipulate existing SQL queries, potentially extracting sensitive data from the database. It is crucial for site administrators to update to the latest version and apply best practices to secure their WordPress installations from such vulnerabilities.

Affected Version(s)

Vertical marquee plugin * <= 7.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vertical-marqu...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2985561/vert...

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
.