CVE-2023-5000

Summary

CVE-2023-5000: A vulnerability has been identified in the Horizontal scrolling announcements plugin for WordPress. This issue affects versions up to and including 2.4, and allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions and above to execute SQL Injection attacks. The vulnerability stems from insufficient escaping on user-supplied parameters and a lack of sufficient preparation on existing SQL queries. Attackers can exploit this flaw to extract sensitive information from the database by appending additional SQL queries into existing ones.

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