PT-2025-9812 · WordPress · The Hero Slider

Lucio Sá · Published 2025-03-05 · Updated 2025-03-06 · CVE-2024-13809

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Hero Slider - WordPress Slider Plugin versions up to, and including, 1.3.5

Description The issue allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to perform SQL Injection attacks due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This enables attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries, potentially extracting sensitive information from the database.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.3.5, update to a version that includes a fix for this issue to prevent SQL Injection attacks.

Fix

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-13809

Affected Products

The Hero Slider

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13809 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/19613 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1897385195994521629 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a692d9c4-66e0-4461-ad13-65e1446106c5?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/WolfgangSesin/status/1897250650242613337 · Twitter Post
• https://codecanyon.net/item/hero-slider-wordpress-slider-plugin/13067813 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1897506938830688543 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/113547 · Telegram Post