CVE-2023-2492QueryWall: Plug'n Play Firewall <= 1.1.1 - Admin+ SQLi
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.89%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
The QueryWall: Plug'n Play Firewall WordPress plugin through 1.1.1 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 admin.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits2
References tagged exploit2 references
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa7c54c2-5653-4d3d-8163-f3d63272c050 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa7c54c2-5653-4d3d-8163-f3d63272c050/ (opens in a new tab)exploit
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 47 days later
· 47 days later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.89% · top 40% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
Unknown · QueryWall: Plug'n Play Firewall
- affected ≤ 1.1.1
References
References2
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa7c54c2-5653-4d3d-8163-f3d63272c050 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa7c54c2-5653-4d3d-8163-f3d63272c050/ (opens in a new tab)exploit
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-33976 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-2492)Record last updated .