CVE-2023-4797 (GCVE-0-2023-4797)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-16 15:56 – Updated: 2025-06-11 16:43
VLAI?
Title
Newsletter Lite < 4.9.3 - Admin+ Command Injection
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/de169fc7-f388-4a… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Newsletters Affected: 0 , < 4.9.3 (semver)
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Credits
Karolis Narvilas WPScan
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