vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: email-subscribers: CVE-2022-0439: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 11, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Email Subscribers and Newsletters WordPress plugin before 5.3.2 does not correctly escape the `order` and `orderby` parameters to the `ajax_fetch_report_list` action, making it vulnerable to blind SQL injection attacks by users with roles as low as Subscriber. Further, it does not have any CSRF protection in place for the action, allowing an attacker to trick any logged in user to perform the action by clicking a link.

Solution

email-subscribers-plugin-cve-2022-0439
Title
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