CVE-2024-8757

Description

The WP Post Author – Boost Your Blog's Engagement with Author Box, Social Links, Co-Authors, Guest Authors, Post Rating System, and Custom User Registration Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the linked_user_id parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Reserved 2024-09-12 | Published 2024-10-12 | Updated 2024-10-15 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

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affected

Timeline

2024-10-11:

Disclosed

Credits

Lesor101 finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-5f19-4889-a988-236df050c013?source=cve

github.com/GumGumZz/wordpress/blob/main/wp-post-author.md

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...-authors/wpa-multi-authors.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...-authors/wpa-multi-authors.php

cve.org (CVE-2024-8757)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-8757)

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