# CVE-2023-23489: Easy Digital Downloads - SQLi

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2023-23489 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2023-23489

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Awesome Motive Easy Digital Downloads WordPress Plugin
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'))
- **Tags:** cms, wordpress

## Description

The Easy Digital Downloads WordPress Plugin, versions 3.1.0.2 & 3.1.0.3, is affected by an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the 's' parameter of its 'edd_download_search' action.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2023-23489](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2023-23489) is a vulnerability in the Easy Digital Downloads WordPress Plugin that allows unauthenticated attackers to perform SQL injection via specially crafted requests to a search action.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 15th of December 2023.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2023-23489 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attempts to exploit this vulnerability typically interact with search-related endpoints of the affected plugin's API.

## Timeline

- 2023-01-20: CVE Published. CVE-2023-23489 is published to NVD.
- 2023-12-15: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2023-23489 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2024-12-05: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2023-23489 for the first time.

## References

- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-2
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-23489.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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