WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Connections Business Directory < 9.7 - Admin+ CSV Injection

Description

The plugin does not validate or sanitise some connections' fields, which could lead to a CSV injection issue

Proof of Concept

1. Visit https://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=connections_add
2. In the input filed add payload @SUM(1+1)*cmd|' /C calc'!A0
3. Visit Connections Tools and then click on Export All
4. It will download a file cn-export-all-MM-DD-YYYY.csv open it with Microsoft Excel

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 9.7

References

Classification

Type
CSV INJECTION
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rudra Sarkar
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2020-05-29 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2021-10-25 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-04-13 (about 2 years ago)

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