CVE-2023-5652: thimpress wp_hotel_booking SQL Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-5652 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in thimpress wp_hotel_booking. EPSS estimates a 63.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 20-11-2023
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 02-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The WP Hotel Booking WordPress plugin before 2.0.8 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks, as well as does not escape user input before using it in a SQL statement of a function hooked to admin_init, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL injections

• CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data.