Easy Digital Downloads < 3.1.0.4 - SQL Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE CVE-2023-23489
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published January 12, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Joshua Martinelle
Description

The Easy Digital Downloads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in versions before 3.1.0.4 via the 's' parameter used in the 'edd_download_search' AJAX action. This allows unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug easy-digital-downloads (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.0.3
Patched Version
  • 3.1.0.4
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