CVE-2021-25076: unknown wp user frontend – membership, profile, registration & post submission plugin for wordpress SQL Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2021-25076 is a high (CVSS 8.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in unknown wp user frontend – membership, profile, registration & post submission plugin for wordpress. EPSS estimates a 17.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 24-01-2022
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 03-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The WP User Frontend WordPress plugin before 3.5.26 does not validate and escape the status parameter before using it in a SQL statement in the Subscribers dashboard, leading to an SQL injection. Due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, this could also lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

• CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data.