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Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security, CVE-2023-6989

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-6989

Published on
Feb 06, 2024
Research Description
The Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 18.5.9 via the render_action_template parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attacker to include and execute PHP files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files.
Affected versions
max 18.5.10.
Status
vulnerable