Description

WordPress Plugin Ajax Category Dropdown is prone to multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities and a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. WordPress Plugin Ajax Category Dropdown version 0.1.5 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised or disable the plugin until a fix is available

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47529/exploit

https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB22947

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/100686/Ajax-Category-Dropdown-WordPress-Plugin-0.1.5-XSS-SQL-Injection.html

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17207/

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-79 CWE-89 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Tags

Missing Update SQL Injection XSS