AdRotate – Ad manager & AdSense Ads <= 5.8.17 - Admin+ SQL Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE CVE-2022-0267
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published February 7, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher ZhongFu Su
Description

The AdRotate WordPress plugin before 5.8.22 does not sanitise and escape the adrotate_action before using it in a SQL statement via the adrotate_request_action function available to admins, leading to a SQL injection

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug adrotate (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.8.17
Patched Version
  • 5.8.22
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