CVE-2023-5433

Summary

CVE-2023-5433 is a vulnerability affecting the Message ticker plugin for WordPress. This issue allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level and above permissions to perform SQL Injection attacks. The flaw stems from insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters and a lack of preparation on existing SQL queries in plugin versions up to 9.2. As a result, attackers can append additional SQL queries to already existing ones, potentially extracting sensitive information from the database.

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