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Alt Text AI – Automatically generate image alt text for SEO and accessibility, CVE-2024-4847

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-4847

Published on
May 15, 2024
Research Description
The Alt Text AI – Automatically generate image alt text for SEO and accessibility plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘last_post_id’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.9 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 Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Affected versions
max 1.5.0.
Status
vulnerable