CVE-2022-1013: ays-pro personal_dictionary SQL Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-1013 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in ays-pro personal_dictionary. EPSS estimates a 7.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 09-05-2022
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 02-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Personal Dictionary WordPress plugin before 1.3.4 fails to properly sanitize user supplied POST data before it is being interpolated in an SQL statement and then executed, leading to a blind SQL injection vulnerability.

• 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.