CVE-2023-6989

Published Feb 5, 2024

Last updated 9 months ago

CVSS critical 9.8

Overview

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.
Source: security@wordfence.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 9.8
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: CRITICAL

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:getshieldsecurity:shield_security:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "03282E3D-3DAE-4357-AA03-B98C65EEA6B4",
            "versionEndExcluding": "18.5.10"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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