Description
WordPress Plugin wpDataTables-WordPress Data Table, Dynamic Tables & Table Charts is prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including cross-site request forgery and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to perform certain administrative actions and gain unauthorized access to the affected application or to compromise the application, access or modify data or to exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database. WordPress Plugin wpDataTables-WordPress Data Table, Dynamic Tables & Table Charts version 1.2.2 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.
Remediation
Update to plugin version 1.2.3 or latest
References
https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2017/08/07/wordpress-plugin-security-review-wpdatatables-lite/
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wpdatatables/trunk/readme.txt
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