# CVE-2023-6567: ThimPress - SQLi

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2023-6567 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-2023-6567

## 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:** ThimPress Learnpress – Wordpress Lms Plugin
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'))
- **Tags:** cms, wordpress

## Description

The LearnPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘order_by’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.5.7 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.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2023-6567](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2023-6567) is a critical vulnerability in the LearnPress plugin for WordPress, which allows unauthenticated attackers to exploit a time-based SQL injection flaw in the handling of sorting parameters. This can lead to extraction of sensitive information from the application's database.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 14th of May 2024.

Data from the CrowdSec community indicates that exploitation of CVE-2023-6567 is highly selective and intelligence-driven. Threat actors use advanced reconnaissance and carefully choose their targets, often as part of sophisticated campaigns or advanced persistent threat operations.
CrowdSec network telemetry also shows that exploitation of CVE-2023-6567 has significantly declined over the past week. Attack volumes are well below the long-term average, suggesting attackers are rapidly losing interest. The vulnerability appears to be falling out of active use across most threat landscapes.

 Adversaries have focused specifically on manipulating the sorting logic to trigger the SQL injection condition.

## Timeline

- 2024-01-11: CVE Published. CVE-2023-6567 is published to NVD.
- 2024-05-14: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2023-6567 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2024-12-04: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2023-6567 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-6567.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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