CVE-2023-6981

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    CVE-2023-6981

    Published: 3 Jan 2024Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: WP SMS <= 6.5 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

    Details: The WP SMS – Messaging & SMS Notification for WordPress, WooCommerce, GravityForms, etc plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'group_id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.5 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 access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. This can leveraged to achieve Reflected Cross-site Scripting.

    References: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3015006%40wp-sms&new=3015006%40wp-sms&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8f53053-5150-4fba-b8d6-3d6c9df32c69?source=cve, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/6xxx/CVE-2023-6981.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6981, https://github.com/wp-sms/wp-sms/commit/6656de201efe67c7983102c344a546eed976a819

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7ad23a0596e8a1554ecfda9bfb9bae60c5598560

    Affected versions

    v6.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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