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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVE-2013-10023

Medium
6.3/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Editorial Calendar Plugin up to 2.6 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function edcal_filter_where of the file edcal.php. The manipulation of the argument edcal_startDate/edcal_endDate leads to sql injection. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 2.7 is able to address this issue. The patch is named a9277f13781187daee760b4dfd052b1b68e101cc. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-225151.

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CWE-89 - SQL Injection

Structured Query Language (SQL) injection attacks are one of the most common types of vulnerabilities. They exploit weaknesses in vulnerable applications to gain unauthorized access to backend databases. This often occurs when an attacker enters unexpected SQL syntax in an input field. The resulting SQL statement behaves in the background in an unintended manner, which allows the possibility of unauthorized data retrieval, data modification, execution of database administration operations, and execution of commands on the operating system.

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