CVE-2023-4797 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Newsletters WordPress plugin before 4.9.3 does not properly escape user-controlled parameters when they are appended to SQL queries and shell commands, which could enable an administrator to run arbitrary commands on the server.

Published: 2024-01-16

Score: 7.2 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Newsletters

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 4.9.3

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:tribulant:newsletters:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-54641	The Newsletters WordPress plugin before 4.9.3 does not properly escape user-controlled parameters when they are appended to SQL queries and shell commands, which could enable an administrator to run arbitrary commands on the server.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0056.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/de169fc7-f388-4abb-ab94-12522fd1ac92/

History

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Tribulant Newsletters

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:56:40.507Z

Updated: 2025-06-11T16:43:37.677Z

Reserved: 2023-09-06T14:24:22.163Z

Link: CVE-2023-4797

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:38:00.494Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:13.400

Modified: 2025-06-11T17:15:35.710

Link: CVE-2023-4797

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-77

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