CVE-2023-6989

The Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 18.5.9 via the render_action_template parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attacker to include and execute PHP files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files.

CVSS v3.1

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

56.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile

Nuclei

critical · CWE-22

Published

2024-02-05

Updated

2026-04-08

Nuclei templates (1)

• projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-6989.yaml

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2023-6985
• CVE-2023-6991
• CVE-2023-6977
• CVE-2023-7012
• CVE-2023-6976
• CVE-2023-7016