WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Broken Link Checker < 2.4.8 - Editor+ SQL Injection

Description

Theplugin is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.4.8

References

Classification

Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
daroo
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-03-26 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-04-16 (about 27 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-04-16 (about 27 days ago)

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