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CVE-2022-4163: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2022-4163 affects the Contest Gallery WordPress plugin and Contest Gallery Pro WordPress plugin versions before 19.1.5.1. The vulnerability was discovered by Kunal Sharma (University of Kaiserslautern) and Daniel Krohmer (Fraunhofer IESE) and was publicly disclosed on December 5, 2022. The affected plugins fail to properly escape the cgdeactivate and cgactivate POST parameters in their respective PHP files (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an SQL Injection (SQLI) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium) and vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N. The issue stems from improper handling of POST parameters in 2deactivate.php and 4activate.php files, where the cgdeactivate and cgactivate parameters are concatenated directly into SQL queries without proper escaping (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability allows malicious users with at least author privileges to potentially leak sensitive information from the site's database through SQL injection attacks (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 19.1.5.1 of both Contest Gallery and Contest Gallery Pro WordPress plugins. Users are advised to update to these versions or later to mitigate the risk (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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