CVE-2018-5315

published 2018-01-12

CVE-2018-5315: The Wachipi WP Events Calendar plugin 1.0 for WordPress has SQL Injection via the event_id parameter to event.php.

Priority P2 61 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

The Wachipi WP Events Calendar plugin 1.0 for WordPress has SQL Injection via the event_id parameter to event.php.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
wp_events_calendar_project	wp_events_calendar	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url {TARGET}/event.php?event_id=-123%20union%20all%20select%201,2,@@version,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29--↗

path event.php↗

• → Monitor HTTP requests to event.php containing 'event_id' parameter with SQL UNION SELECT payloads, particularly those selecting 29 columns. ↗
• → Detect SQL injection attempts via the event_id parameter in GET requests to event.php, specifically negative integer values followed by UNION ALL SELECT keywords. ↗
• → Flag requests to event.php where event_id contains @@version, indicating database version fingerprinting via SQL injection. ↗

• · The vulnerable plugin (Wachipi WP Events Calendar v1.0) is distinct from the popular Modern Tribe Events Calendar plugin; detections should be scoped to the Wachipi plugin path only. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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