CVE-2023-5434

Summary

CVE-2023-5434 is a vulnerability affecting the Superb slideshow gallery plugin for WordPress. The issue, present in versions up to 13.1, allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level permissions or higher to execute SQL Injections through the plugin's shortcode. This is due to insufficient escaping on user-supplied parameters and a lack of preparation of existing SQL queries. The vulnerability grants attackers the ability to append additional queries, which can be exploited to extract sensitive data from the database.

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