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CVE-2024-1698

CRITICAL 9.8

NotificationX – Best FOMO, Social Proof, WooCommerce Sales Popup & Notification Bar Plugin With Elementor <= 2.8.2 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection

CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The NotificationX – Best FOMO, Social Proof, WooCommerce Sales Popup & Notification Bar Plugin With Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'type' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

CWE CWE-89
Vendor wpdevteam
Product notificationx – fomo, live sales notification, woocommerce sales popup, gdpr, social proof, announcement banner & floating notification bar
Published Feb 27, 2024
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

wpdevteam / NotificationX – FOMO, Live Sales Notification, WooCommerce Sales Popup, GDPR, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Floating Notification Bar
0 ≤ 2.8.2

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e110ea99-e2fa-4558-bcf3-942a35af0b91?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3040809/notificationx/trunk/includes/Core/Database.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3040809/notificationx/trunk/includes/Core/Rest/Analytics.php vicarius.io: https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/decoding-the-unseen-threat-exploiting-cve-2024-1698-unauthenticated-sql-injection-in-notificationx-wordpress-plugin-from-basics-to-breach-a-comprehensive-guide-to-source-code-analysis-and-crafting-the-ultimate-exploit

Credits

Krzysztof Zając