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WP Forum <= 2.3 — Multiple SQL Injections

CVE-2009-3703Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <2.4Update to 2.4 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

wp-forum wp-forum

  1. Affected< 2.4
  2. Patched in2.4

Update to 2.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.4. Version 2.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under wp-forum.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch wp-forum to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Juan Galiana Lara.

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in the WP-Forum plugin before 2.4 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via (1) the search_max parameter in a search action to the default URI, related to wpf.class.php; (2) the forum parameter to an unspecified component, related to wpf.class.php; (3) the topic parameter in a viewforum action to the default URI, related to the remove_topic function in wpf.class.php; or the id parameter in a (4) editpost or (5) viewtopic action to the default URI, related to wpf-post.php.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in wp-forum

All 3
More vulnerabilities in wp-forum
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Critical9.8SQL Injection
≤2.4No patch available
—
Critical9.8Remote SQL Injection
≤1.7.4Update to 1.7.7
CVE-2008-0388
  • Critical9.8
    SQL Injection

    ≤2.4No patch available

    3d7b4428-99ac-4f84-8595-941124121eb2

  • Critical9.8
    Remote SQL Injection

    ≤1.7.4Update to 1.7.7

    CVE-2008-0388

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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