The Slider Hero plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to second-order SQL Injection in versions up...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The Slider Hero plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to second-order SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 9.1.7 via the qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() function. Slide data (description, title, btn, btn2, image_link, custom, etc.) is stored safely via $wpdb->update() with %s placeholders in the qchero_save_image AJAX handler, but when an administrator triggers the 'heroduplicateslider' task, qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() re-reads every slide column and concatenates the raw values directly into an INSERT VALUES tuple that is then executed with $wpdb->query() — with no $wpdb->prepare(), esc_sql(), or _real_escape_string in between. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
🔗 References (8)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17582
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.6/qcld-slider-main.php#L1206
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.6/qcld-slider-main.php#L392
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.7/qcld-slider-main.php#L1206
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.7/qcld-slider-main.php#L392
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3635315%40slider-hero&new=3635315%40slider-hero
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2b36621-3322-4631-b693-629c5084708b?source=cve
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxq7-r2mm-g784