CVE-2023-38382 is a critical SQL Injection vulnerability (CWE-89) affecting the "Subscribe to Category" plugin by Daniel Söderström / Sidney van de Stouwe, impacting all versions up to 2.7.4. This flaw allows attackers to inject malicious SQL commands due to improper neutralization of special elements. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a severe risk with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no user interaction or privileges for exploitation over the network. While there is no known active exploitation (KEV list inactive) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered minimal community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:subscribe_to_category_project:subscribe_to_category:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.