TranslatePress <= 2.3.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE CVE-2022-3141
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published July 23, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Elias Hohl
Description

The Translate Multilingual sites WordPress plugin is vulnerable to an authenticated SQL injection in versions up to, and including, 2.3.2 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. By adding a new language (via the settings page) containing specific special characters, the backticks in the SQL query can be surpassed. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers 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 translatepress-multilingual (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.3.2
Patched Version
  • 2.3.3
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