Intuitive Custom Post Order: SQL injection
Intuitive Custom Post Order is affected by SQL injection. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.
- Component
- Intuitive Custom Post Order
- Plugin slug
intuitive-custom-post-order- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jun 09, 2023
This CVE was published Jun 09, 2023 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Intuitive Custom Post Order to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Intuitive Custom Post Order plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 3.1.4.1, due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied 'objects' and 'tags' parameters and lack of sufficient preparation in the 'update_options' function as well as the 'refresh' function which runs queries on the same values. This allows authenticated attackers, with administrator permissions, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. Note that this attack may only be practical on configurations where it is possible to bypass addslashes due to the database using a nonstandard character set such as GBK.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H