CVE-2023-5437
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.5 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Oct 31, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-5437 is a vulnerability affecting the WP Fade In Text News plugin for WordPress. The issue lies in the plugin's shortcode, which allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level permissions and above to perform SQL Injection due to inadequate escaping of user-supplied data and insufficient preparation of SQL queries. Consequently, attackers can append additional SQL queries to existing ones, potentially extracting sensitive information from the database.
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