CVE-2023-0600

published 2023-05-15

CVE-2023-0600: The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) WordPress plugin before 6.9 does not escape user input which is concatenated to an SQL query, allowing…

Priority P1 80 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

ITW EXPLOIT VulnCheck KEV

The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) WordPress plugin before 6.9 does not escape user input which is concatenated to an SQL query, allowing unauthenticated visitors to conduct SQL Injection attacks.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
codepress	visitor_statistics	< 6.9	6.9

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

command sleep(6)

sigma

title: WP Visitor Statistics SQLi Detection
detection:
  selection:
    - 'status_code == 200'
    - 'contains(body, "sleep(6)")'
  condition: and

• → The vulnerability is exploitable by unauthenticated visitors — no authentication required. Monitor for SQL injection payloads (e.g., time-based blind SQLi using sleep()) in HTTP request/response bodies targeting WP Visitor Statistics plugin endpoints. ↗
• → Detection rule triggers on HTTP 200 responses containing 'sleep(6)' in the body, indicating a successful time-based blind SQL injection probe against the plugin.

• · Affected versions are WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) plugin versions before 6.9. Ensure version-scoping is applied when deploying detections to avoid false positives on patched installations. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

vulncheck 9.8 CRITICAL

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