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CVE-2023-5000: Horizontal scrolling announcements <= 2.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via Shortcode

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The Horizontal scrolling announcements plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the plugin's 'hsas-shortcode' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.4 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 and above permissions to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected products

• gopiplus Horizontal scrolling announcement: through 2.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/horizontal-scrolling-announcements/trunk/query/db_content.php?rev=2827116#L44
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/horizontal-scrolling-announcements/trunk/query/db_content.php?rev=2973422#L56
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/327e706d-2d6c-4204-a531-281f2e2dbcf0?source=cve

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