Database extraction via unescaped language identifier
Published Sep 19, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
SQL injection in Cozmoslabs TranslatePress before 2.3.3 allows remote authenticated users to read database data through crafted language names. The settings update path inserts a translation-languages value into a backtick-delimited SQL identifier without sufficient escaping or query preparation, allowing special characters to terminate the identifier and inject a time-delay expression. WordPress administrator access and a second request to the front-end translation preview are required; the demonstrated consequence is blind database extraction through response timing.
Summary
What happened
SQL injection in Cozmoslabs TranslatePress before 2.3.3 allows remote authenticated users to read database data through crafted language names. The settings update path inserts a translation-languages value into a backtick-delimited SQL identifier without sufficient escaping or query preparation, allowing special characters to terminate the identifier and inject a time-delay expression. WordPress administrator access and a second request to the front-end translation preview are required; the demonstrated consequence is blind database extraction through response timing.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-3141
- Published
- Sep 19, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- Cozmoslabs
- Product
- TranslatePress
- Classifications
- CWE-89, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 19, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.3.3 <2.3.3
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Authenticated time-based blind SQL injection exploitfunctional · demonstrated
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