Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system <= 1.5.2 - Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection

2021-06-22 00:00
Toby Jackson

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.5.3
Affected Version< 1.5.3
CVSS9.8Critical
CVECVE-2021-24442
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Vulnerability Overview

The Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system WordPress plugin before 1.5.3 did not sanitise, escape or validate the date_answers[] POST parameter before using it in a SQL statement when sending a Poll result, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL Injection attacks

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.5.3, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')) The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data.

External References

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