HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery) <= 2.4.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.0
- Affected Plugin
- HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery)
- Affected Version
<= 2.4.2- CVSS
- 9.1Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
- CVE
CVE-2014-5180
At a glance
CVE-2014-5180 is a critical-severity Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in the HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery) WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.4.2. It carries a CVSS score of 9.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Admin level or above. The issue is fixed in version 3.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2014, reported by Anant Shrivastava (anantshri).
Vulnerability Overview
SQL injection vulnerability in the videos page in the HDW Player Plugin (hdw-player-video-player-video-gallery) 2.4.2 for WordPress allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in the edit action to wp-admin/admin.php.
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 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 HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery) <= 2.4.2 takes an account at Admin level or above. 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 HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery) the fix is 3.0: builds <= 2.4.2 are affected, anything from 3.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Admin access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery) 3.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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Other vulnerabilities in HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery)
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