WP Contacts Manager <= 2.2.4 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE CVE-2022-1014
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published May 2, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher cydave
Description

The WP Contacts Manager WordPress plugin through 2.2.4 fails to properly sanitize user supplied POST data before it is being interpolated in an SQL statement and then executed, leading to an SQL injection vulnerability.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-contacts-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.4
Patched Version
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