CVE•Published 2023-11-20•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data

CVE-2023-5652

Vulnerability data via CVEDB (Shodan)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

CRITICAL

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 1% of all CVEs

Description

The WP Hotel Booking WordPress plugin before 2.0.8 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks, as well as does not escape user input before using it in a SQL statement of a function hooked to admin_init, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL injections

Timeline

Published 2023-11-20

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC Sploitus trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2023-5652

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · WP plugin path

http.html:"/wp-content/plugins/wp-hotel-booking/"

Matches any site loading the "wp-hotel-booking" plugin — doesn't rely on Shodan's vuln tag.

Shodan · product

product:"Thimpress Wp Hotel Booking"

All exposed Thimpress Wp Hotel Booking instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.

Shodan · banner/body mention

http.html:"Wp Hotel Booking"

HTTP body or banner mentions "Wp Hotel Booking" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.