CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-2201
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-06-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-89
Description
The Web Directory Free for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the ‘post_id’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.6.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level privileges to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Affected configurations
• salephpscripts web directory free (<= 1.6.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/web-directory-free/tags/1.6.6/search/plugin/classes/search/search_forms_manager.php#L1425 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/web-directory-free/tags/1.6.8/search/plugin/classes/search/search_forms_manager.php#L1391 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3023559/web-directory-free/trunk/search/plugin/classes/search/search_forms_manager.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d831fa81-4714-4757-b75d-0a8f5edda910?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/web-directory-free/tags/1.6.6/search/plugin/classes/search/search_forms_manager.php#L1425 Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d831fa81-4714-4757-b75d-0a8f5edda910?source=cve Third Party Advisory