Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2022.03.01
- Affected Plugin
- Daily Prayer Time
- Affected Version
< 2022.03.01- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
- CVE
CVE-2022-0785
At a glance
CVE-2022-0785 is a critical-severity Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in the Daily Prayer Time WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2022.03.01. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2022.03.01; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2022, reported by cydave.
Vulnerability Overview
The Daily Prayer Time WordPress plugin before 2022.03.01 does not sanitise and escape the month parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the get_monthly_timetable AJAX action (available to unauthenticated users), leading to an unauthenticated SQL injection
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
Reaching this weakness in Daily Prayer Time < 2022.03.01 takes no account at all. SQL injection happens when request data is concatenated into a query instead of being bound as a parameter, letting an attacker change the structure of the statement rather than just its values.
A working injection can read any table the database user can see, which on a WordPress install means user records, password hashes and session or API secrets stored in options. For Daily Prayer Time the fix is 2022.03.01: builds < 2022.03.01 are affected, anything from 2022.03.01 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2022.03.01, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Daily Prayer Time 2022.03.01 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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