Time-Based SQL Injection Vulnerability in WP Post Author Plugin
CVE-2024-8757

7.2HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
WP Post Author – Boost Your Blog's Engagement With Author Box, Social Links, Co-authors, Guest Authors, Post Rating System, And Custom User Registration Form Builder
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 October 2024

What is CVE-2024-8757?

The WP Post Author plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability that allows authenticated users with Administrator-level access and above to exploit a time-based SQL Injection via the linked_user_id parameter. Due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters and inadequate preparation in the SQL query, attackers can append additional SQL queries to extract sensitive information from the WordPress database. This vulnerability affects all versions of the WP Post Author plugin up to and including version 3.8.1, potentially leading to unauthorized data exposure.

Affected Version(s)

WP Post Author – Boost Your Blog&#039;s Engagement with Author Box, Social Links, Co-Authors, Guest Authors, Post Rating System, and Custom User Registration Form Builder * <= 3.8.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://github.com/GumGumZz/wordpress/blob/main/wp-post-a...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-post-author...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.2
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lesor101
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The Cyber Security Vulnerability Database.