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Exploit for WordPress Plugin Automatic <= 3.92.0 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (CVE-2024-27956)

Description:

The Automatic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 3.92.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected Products:

WordPress Plugin Automatic <= 3.92.0 (fixed in 3.92.1)

Proof of Concept

PoC exploits

https://github.com/truonghuuphuc/CVE-2024-27956

Nuclei Template

View the template here CVE-2024-27956.yaml

Validate with Nuclei

echo "$URL" | nuclei -t ~/nuclei-templates/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-27956.yaml

References:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27956
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wp-automatic/wordpress-automatic-plugin-3-92-0-unauthenticated-arbitrary-sql-execution-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
https://github.com/truonghuuphuc/CVE-2024-27956

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