Hide My WP < 6.2.9 — Unauthenticated SQL Injection
CVE-2022-4681Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <6.2.9Update to 6.2.9 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- 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?
Hide My WP - Amazing Security Plugin for WordPress! hide_my_wp
- Affected< 6.2.9
- Patched in6.2.9
Update to 6.2.9 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 6.2.9. Version 6.2.9 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Hide My WP - Amazing Security Plugin for WordPress!.
- 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
- Update to version 6.2.9, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Hide My WP - Amazing Security Plugin for WordPress! to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Xenofon Vassilakopoulos.
The Hide My WP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via an unknown parameter in versions up to, but not including, 6.2.9 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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