Vulnerability — CVE-2023-5437

CVE-2023-5437

Reference to the description:: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5437
Description:: The WP fade in text news plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the plugin's shortcode in versions up to, and including, 12.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level and above permissions to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Last updated date:: 11/06/2023

Type:: exploit
Confidence:: HIGH
Date of publishing:: 11/06/2023
Reference url to background: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-fade-in-text-news/trunk/wp-fade-in-text-news.php?rev=2827202#L236