Boost Your Blog's Engagement with WP Post Author <= 3.8.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-8757
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published October 11, 2024
Last Updated October 12, 2024
Researcher Lesor101
Description

The WP Post Author – Boost Your Blog&#039;s Engagement with Author Box, Social Links, Co-Authors, Guest Authors, Post Rating System, and Custom User Registration Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the linked_user_id parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-post-author (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.8.1
Patched Version
  • 3.8.2
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