CVE-2023-6989
The Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 18.5.9 via the render_action_template parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attacker to include and execute PHP files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical
- Status
- Modified - security@wordfence.com
- Published
- 2024-02-05
- Last modified
- 2026-04-08
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22, CWE-98
Affected products
- Shield Security (Getshieldsecurity)
- And Prevents Security Breaches (Paultgoodchild)
- Protects Users (Paultgoodchild)
- Shield Blocks Bots (Paultgoodchild)
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3013699%40wp-simple-firewall&new=30136…
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/063826cc-7ff3-4869-9831-f6a4a4bbe74c?source=cve
