WordPress Review Stars Count For WooCommerce SQL Injection Vulnerability

A SQL injection vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Review Stars Count For WooCommerce plugin, affecting versions through 2.0. This vulnerability allows for improper neutralization of special elements used in SQL commands, enabling malicious actors to manipulate database queries.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for SQL injection, where an attacker can interfere with the database queries of the application. This could lead to unauthorized data access, data manipulation, or in some cases, executing administrative operations on the database.

Remediation

Users of the WordPress Review Stars Count For WooCommerce plugin are advised to update to a version later than 2.0. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch that can be applied immediately to mitigate this vulnerability.