User Activity Log <= 1.6.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE CVE-2023-37966
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published July 12, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher LEE SE HYOUNG
Description

The User Activity Log plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via several parameters like 'userrole', 'userip', 'username', and 'type' in versions up to, and including, 1.6.2 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query in the ual_user_activity_function() function. 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 user-activity-log (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.2
Patched Version
  • 1.6.3
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