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CVE-2023-50847:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2023-50847 is a SQL Injection vulnerability discovered in Collne Inc.'s Welcart e-Commerce WordPress plugin affecting versions up to 2.9.3. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on December 21, 2023, and was initially reported by Muhammad Daffa on October 17, 2023 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as an SQL Injection (CWE-89) that occurs due to improper neutralization of special elements used in SQL commands. The issue received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (High) from NIST and 7.6 (High) from Patchstack. The vulnerability requires authenticated access with editor privileges or above to exploit (WPScan).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with editor access and above to append additional SQL queries to existing ones, potentially enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the database (WPScan).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.9.4 of the Welcart e-Commerce plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.9.4 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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