CVE-2024-13230

Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin – Super Socializer <= 7.14 - Unauthenticated Limited SQL Injection via 'SuperSocializerKey'

2025-01-20 22:38
mikemyers

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 7.14.1
Affected Plugin
Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin – Super Socializer
Affected Version
<= 7.14
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE
CVE-2024-13230
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At a glance

CVE-2024-13230 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in the Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 7.14. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 7.14.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by mikemyers.

Vulnerability Overview

The Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin – Super Socializer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Limited SQL Injection via the ‘SuperSocializerKey’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.14 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional values into the already existing query that can be used to extract user metadata from the database.

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.

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

Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin <= 7.14 carries this weakness at SuperSocializerKey, and reaching it 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 Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin the fix is 7.14.1: builds <= 7.14 are affected, anything from 7.14.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 7.14.1, 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: Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin 7.14.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13230https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d7b2a7f-3c67-4df1-bb15-e7f4f0035953https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13230

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