CVE-2023-1425 Groundhogg Contacts < 2.7.9.4 - Admin+ SQLi

What is CVE-2023-1425?

CVE-2023-1425 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown WordPress CRM, Email & Marketing Automation for WordPress | Award Winner — Groundhogg, published on 10 Apr 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The WordPress CRM, Email & Marketing Automation for WordPress | Award Winner — Groundhogg WordPress plugin before 2.7.9.4 does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection exploitable by high privilege users such as admins

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-1425?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Groundhogg Groundhogg.

How do I fix CVE-2023-1425?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-1425 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2023-1425 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-1425 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown WordPress CRM, Email & Marketing Automation for WordPress | Award Winner — Groundhogg

• CVE-2019-15647 The groundhogg plugin before 1.3.5 for WordPress has wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=bulk_action_listener remote code execution. High 8.8
• CVE-2023-34179 WordPress Groundhogg Plugin <= 2.7.11 is vulnerable to SQL Injection High 7.6
• CVE-2023-2736 Groundhogg <= 2.7.9.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation High 7.5
• CVE-2024-37264 WordPress Groundhogg plugin <= 3.4.2.3 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability High 7.1
• CVE-2023-40681 WordPress Groundhogg Plugin <= 2.7.11.10 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Medium 5.9

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-ch73-x6xh-8mrp.