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

Published Aug 6, 2024

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.

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Remediation

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References (3)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Wordfence
Published Aug 6, 2024
Updated Apr 8, 2026
Reserved Sep 15, 2023
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Aug 8, 2024
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a