WordPress Automatic plugin critical vulnerability

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+# WordPress Automatic plugin vulnerability - 20240429002
+
+## Overview
+
+The Automatic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
+
+## What is vulnerable?
+
+| Product Affected                                          | CVE                                                                                                                              | Severity | CVSS |
+| --------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ---- |
+| WordPress Automatic plugin <br> All versions prior to 3.92.0 | [CVE-2024-27956](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27956) | **Critical** | 9.9  |
+
+## What has been observed?
+
+There is no evidence of exploitation affecting Western Australian Government networks at the time of publishing.
+
+## Recommendation
+
+The WA SOC recommends administrators apply the solutions as per vendor instructions to all affected devices within expected timeframe of *one month...* (refer [Patch Management](../guidelines/patch-management.md)):
+
+## Additional References
+-   [NVD - CVE-2024-27956 (nist.gov)](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27956 "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27956")
+-   [CVE-2024-27956 | Tenable®](https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2024-27956 "https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2024-27956")
+-   [Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites (thehackernews.com)](https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/hackers-exploiting-wp-automatic-plugin.html "https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/hackers-exploiting-wp-automatic-plugin.html")