WP User Frontend < 3.5.26 - SQL Injection to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2021-25076

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
WP User Frontend – Membership, Profile, Registration & Post Submission Plugin For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
24 January 2022

Badges

πŸ‘Ύ Exploit Exists🟑 Public PoC

Summary

The WP User Frontend WordPress plugin before 3.5.26 does not validate and escape the status parameter before using it in a SQL statement in the Subscribers dashboard, leading to an SQL injection. Due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, this could also lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Affected Version(s)

WP User Frontend – Membership, Profile, Registration & Post Submission Plugin for WordPress 3.5.26

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2021-25076
Created by 0xAbbarhSF

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6d3eeba6-5560-4380-a6e9-...
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2648715
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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166071/WordPress-WP-...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • 🟑

    Public PoC available

  • πŸ‘Ύ

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Krzysztof ZajΔ…c
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