CVE-2022-2269: unknown website file changes monitor SQL Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-2269 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in unknown website file changes monitor. EPSS estimates a 1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

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

Description

The Website File Changes Monitor WordPress plugin before 1.8.3 does not sanitise and escape user input before using it in a SQL statement via an action available to users with the manage_options capability (by default admins), leading to an SQL injection

• 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.