User Activity Log <= 1.6.2 — Authenticated(Administrator+) SQL Injection via txtsearch
CVE-2023-2761Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.6.2Update to 1.6.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.6
- CVSS
- 6.6CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:HAttack complexity- High
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-89 SQL Injection
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
User Activity Log user-activity-log
- Affected≤ 1.6.2
- Patched in1.6.3
Update to 1.6.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.6.2. Version 1.6.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under User Activity Log.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.6.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User Activity Log to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ilyase Dehy, Aymane Mazguiti.
The User Activity Log plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘txtsearch’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.6.2 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 administrator-level permissions to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Limited Arbitrary Option Update ≤2.2No patch available | CVE-2025-13471 | |
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| High7.5 | Unauthenticated Data Export to Sensitive Information Disclosure ≤1.6.5Update to 1.6.6 | CVE-2023-4269 |
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- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Limited Arbitrary Option Update
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| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.6
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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