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CVE-2023-5430:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Jquery news ticker plugin for WordPress contains a SQL Injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-5430) in versions up to and including 3.0. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's shortcode functionality due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters and inadequate preparation of SQL queries (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM) by NIST with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, while Wordfence has assigned it a higher score of 8.8 (HIGH) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The vulnerability stems from improper parameter handling in the plugin's shortcode implementation (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level permissions or higher to append additional SQL queries to existing queries. This can be exploited to extract sensitive information from the database (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to version 3.1 or later of the Jquery news ticker plugin, which contains fixes for this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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