Description
WordPress Plugin NotificationX-WooCommerce Sales Notification Popup, Custom & Live Sales Notification, FOMO, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Sticky Notification Bar is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query. Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. WordPress Plugin NotificationX-WooCommerce Sales Notification Popup, Custom & Live Sales Notification, FOMO, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Sticky Notification Bar version 2.3.8 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.
Remediation
Update to plugin version 2.3.9 or latest
References
https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:1D0DD7BE-29F3-4043-A9C6-67D02746463A
https://kazet.cc/2022/02/03/fuzzing-wordpress-plugins.html
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/notificationx/trunk/README.txt
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