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Translatepress Multilinugal < 2.3.3 - Admin+ SQLi

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to an authenticated SQL injection. By adding a new language (via the settings page) containing specific special characters, the backticks in the SQL query can be surpassed and a time-based blind payload can be injected.

Proof of Concept

To exploit the vulnerability, someone must send a specifically crafted request adding a new language containing specific special characters, and then open another page and measure the response time to retrieve data. This can be automated via sqlmap. 

Affects Plugins

translatepress-multilingual
Fixed in version 2.3.3

References

CVE
CVE-2022-3141
URL
https://github.com/ehtec/translatepress-exploit
URL
https://medium.com/@elias.hohl/authenticated-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-translatepress-multilingual-wordpress-plugin-effc08eda514

Classification

Type

SQLI

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-89

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Elias Hohl

Submitter

Elias Hohl

Submitter website
https://ehtec.co
Submitter twitter
EliasHohl
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
1fa355d1-cca8-4b27-9d21-0b420a2e1bf3

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-07-23 (about 6 months ago)

Added

2022-09-06 (about 4 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-09-06 (about 4 months ago)

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