SQL Injection Vulnerability in Pods Plugin Could Lead to Sensitive Data Exfiltration
CVE-2023-6967

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Pods – Custom Content Types And Fields
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 April 2024

What is CVE-2023-6967?

The Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields plugin for WordPress exhibits a SQL Injection vulnerability through its shortcode feature. This issue arises from inadequate escaping of user-supplied parameters and insufficient preparation of the SQL queries involved. Attackers with contributor level access or higher can leverage this vulnerability to inject additional SQL commands into existing queries. This manipulation can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data stored within the database, potentially compromising the integrity and privacy of user information.

Affected Version(s)

Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields * < 2.7.31

Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields 2.8 < 2.8.23.2

Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields 3 < 3.0.10.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pods/trunk/cla...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

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

Nex Team
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