CVE-2021-36916 WordPress Hide My WP premium plugin <= 6.2.3 - Unauthenticated SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability

2021-11-2400:00:00

CWE-89

Patchstack

www.cve.org

8.6 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

53.2%

JSON

The SQL injection vulnerability in the Hide My WP WordPress plugin (versions <= 6.2.3) is possible because of how the IP address is retrieved and used inside a SQL query. The function “hmwp_get_user_ip” tries to retrieve the IP address from multiple headers, including IP address headers that the user can spoof, such as “X-Forwarded-For.” As a result, the malicious payload supplied in one of these IP address headers will be directly inserted into the SQL query, making SQL injection possible.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Hide My WP (WordPress plugin)",
    "vendor": "wpWave",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.2.3",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "<= 6.2.3",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]