WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Import all XML, CSV & TXT into WordPress < 6.5.8 - Admin+ SQLi
Description
The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape imported data before using them back SQL statements, leading to SQL injection exploitable by high privilege users such as admin
Proof of Concept
With the additional https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/ plugin installed, import a CSV with the following payload in the language_code column: en' union select if(user_login='wordpress',sleep(5),null) from wp_users#
Affects Plugins
Fixed in version 6.5.8
References
Classification
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Sanjay Das
Submitter
Sanjay Das
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-09-20 (about 6 months ago)
Added
2022-09-20 (about 6 months ago)
Last Updated
2022-09-20 (about 6 months ago)