QID 150474

Date Published: 2022-02-23

QID 150474: WordPress All In One SEO Plugin Multiple Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-25036,CVE-2021-25037)

All in One SEO (AIOSEO) is a WordPress plugin that helps website owners optimize their WordPress websites for search engines and social media.

All in One SEO pack contains multiple vulnerabilities:
Authenticated Privilege Escalation (CVE-2021-25036): Vulnerability allows low-privileged accounts, like subscribers, to perform remote code execution on affected sites.
Authenticated SQL Injection (CVE-2021-25037): SQL Injection vulnerability could grant attackers access to privileged information from the affected sites database.

Affected Versions:
version between 4.0.0 and 4.1.5.2 inclusively.

QID Detection Logic:
This QID sends a HTTP GET request and checks for vulnerable version of WordPress plugin running on the target application.

This chained exploit has the capability of leaving the websites open to threat of takeover by establishing a backdoor on the web server.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.5 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to upgrade to the All in One SEO version 4.1.5.3 or later to remediate these vulnerabilities. For more information please visit All in One SEO.

Vendor References

All in one SEO - plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2640944/all-in-one-seo-pack/trunk/app/Common/Api/Api.php

CVEs related to QID 150474

CVE-2021-25036 | CVE-2021-25037 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
All in one SEO			wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/#developers

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