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Left right image slideshow gallery, CVE-2023-5431

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-5431

Published on
Oct 31, 2023
Research Description
The Left right image slideshow gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the plugin's shortcode in versions up to, and including, 12.0 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 and above permissions to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Affected versions
Min -, max 12.1.
Status
vulnerable