CVE-2023-6989

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-98 CWE-22

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 5, 2024
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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