CVE-2024-13596

Summary

CVE-2024-13596 is a vulnerability affecting the WordPress Survey & Poll plugin for WordPress. This issue permits authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to execute SQL Injections via the 'id' attribute of the 'survey' shortcode. The vulnerability stems from insufficient escaping of user-supplied data and a lack of proper query preparation. Consequently, attackers can append additional SQL queries to existing ones, potentially extracting sensitive data from the database. Versions up to and including 1.7.5 are susceptible to this issue.

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