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CVE-2024-1698: NotificationX – Best FOMO, Social Proof, WooCommerce Sales Popup & Notification Bar Plugin With Elementor <= 2.8.2 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 77.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-02-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The NotificationX – Best FOMO, Social Proof, WooCommerce Sales Popup & Notification Bar Plugin With Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'type' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected products

• wpdevteam NotificationX – FOMO, Live Sales Notification, WooCommerce Sales Popup, GDPR, Social Proof, Announcement Banne: before 2.8.3 — fixed in 2.8.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpdevteam NotificationX – FOMO, Live Sales Notification, WooCommerce Sales Popup, GDPR, Social Proof, Announcement Banne 2.8.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3040809/notificationx/trunk/includes/Core/Database.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3040809/notificationx/trunk/includes/Core/Rest/Analytics.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e110ea99-e2fa-4558-bcf3-942a35af0b91?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3040809/notificationx/trunk/includes/Core/Database.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3040809/notificationx/trunk/includes/Core/Rest/Analytics.php
• https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/decoding-the-unseen-threat-exploiting-cve-2024-1698-unauthenticated-sql-injection-in-notificationx-wordpress-plugin-from-basics-to-breach-a-comprehensive-guide-to-source-code-analysis-and-crafting-the-ultimate-exploit
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e110ea99-e2fa-4558-bcf3-942a35af0b91?source=cve

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