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Simple Ads Manager < 2.7.97 — Multiple SQL Injections

CVE-2015-2824Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <2.7.97Update to 2.7.97 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Critical10.0
CVSS
10.0
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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:C Scope
Changed
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?

Simple Ads Manager simple-ads-manager

  1. Affected< 2.7.97
  2. Patched in2.7.97

Update to 2.7.97 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.7.97. Version 2.7.97 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Simple Ads Manager.
  • 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 2.7.97, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Simple Ads Manager to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Le Hong Minh.

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in the Simple Ads Manager plugin before 2.7.97 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a (1) hits[][] parameter in a sam_hits action to sam-ajax.php; the (2) cstr parameter in a load_posts action to sam-ajax-admin.php; the (3) searchTerm parameter in a load_combo_data action to sam-ajax-admin.php; or the (4) subscriber, (5) contributor, (6) author, (7) editor, (8) admin, or (9) sadmin parameter in a load_users action to sam-ajax-admin.php.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Simple Ads Manager

All 7
More vulnerabilities in Simple Ads Manager
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.3Unauthenticated PHP Objection Injection
<2.10.0.130Update to 2.10.0.130
—
High8.8Local/Remote File Inclusion
≤2.10.0.130No patch available
—
Critical9.8SQL Injection
<2.9.5.118Update to 2.9.5.118
—
High7.5Denial of Service
<2.9.4.116Update to 2.9.4.116
—
Medium5.3Information Disclosure
≤2.5.96Update to 2.5.97
CVE-2015-2826

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 10.0

  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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