Check Point Advisories

WordPress SupportCandy Plugin SQL Injection (CVE-2023-1730)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2023-2085
Date Published: 15 Jul 2025
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Tuesday 15 July, 2025
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2023-1730
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? WordPress SupportCandy plugin prior to 3.1.5
Vulnerability Description A SQL injection vulnerability in the WordPress SupportCandy plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries, potentially compromising the database.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the WordPress SupportCandy Plugin SQL Injection (CVE-2023-1730) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  WordPress Enforcement Protection.
Attack Information:  WordPress SupportCandy Plugin SQL Injection (CVE-2023-1730)

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