🛡️ CVE-2023-5464 — jquery-accordion-slideshow

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-89 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

The Jquery accordion slideshow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the plugin's shortcode in versions up to, and including, 8.1 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level and above permissions to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-5464 is classified as CWE-89: SQL Injection. Untrusted input is concatenated into an SQL statement, letting an attacker change the query and reach data the request should not return.

Affected software

CVE-2023-5464 is recorded against 1 package.

  • jquery-accordion-slideshow (fixed in 8.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 31 October 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-89
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-31
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
jquery-accordion-slideshow — 8.2

Exploit Protection

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