CVE-2023-5430
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.5 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Oct 31, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-5430 is a vulnerability affecting the Jquery news ticker plugin for WordPress. The issue arises from insufficient escaping on user-supplied parameters and the lack of preparation of existing SQL queries within the plugin's shortcode. This deficiency allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level or higher permissions to inject additional SQL queries into existing ones. Consequently, sensitive information from the WordPress database can be extracted.
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