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CVE-2022-46849:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A SQL Injection vulnerability (CVE-2022-46849) was discovered in the Weblizar Coming Soon Page – Responsive Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode WordPress plugin affecting versions up to 1.5.9. The vulnerability was reported on December 9, 2022, and was publicly disclosed on July 5, 2023 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as an SQL Injection (CWE-89) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 CRITICAL (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, and can result in high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).
Impact
The SQL Injection vulnerability could allow malicious actors to directly interact with the database, potentially leading to unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, or compromise of the database system (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.6.0 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.6.0 or later to remediate the security issue (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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