InfiniteWP Client <= 1.13.9 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection via 'iwp_get_comments_*' Array Key
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- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The InfiniteWP Client plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the get_comments action in versions up to, and including, 1.13.9. This is due to insufficient escaping on the array-key names supplied in the JSON request body before use in a SQL statement: IWP_MMB_Comment::get_comments() calls extract() on $args (which silently skips keys that are not valid PHP variable names) but a second foreach($args as $checkbox => $checkbox_val) processes every key, strips the 'iwp_get_comments_' prefix with str_replace(), wraps the remainder in single quotes, and imploded it into an IN(...) clause that is executed via $wpdb->get_results() with no prepare(). Because the request body is read from php://input and JSON-decoded, wp_magic_quotes() never touches the data, so quote characters in keys pass through unaltered. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above (an administrator can register their own public key via add_site using the plugin's WP-admin-generated activation_key and then issue signed get_comments requests), to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- revmakx InfiniteWP Client
through 1.13.9
References 7
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/addons/comments/comments.class.php#L80
- browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/addons/comments/comments.class.php#L71
- browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/addons/comments/comments.class.php#L57
- browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/init.php#L1651
- browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/init.php#L131
- changeset?reponame=&old=3655042%40iwp-client&new=3655042%40iwp-client