QID 150519

Date Published: 2022-06-04

QID 150519: WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin: Unauthenticated SQL Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2022-1281)

Photo Gallery plugin is a feature-rich, yet easy-to-use WordPress tool, which lets you add mobile-friendly image galleries and gallery groups to your website.

The plugin does not properly escape the $_POST['filter_tag'] parameter, which is appended to an SQL query, making SQL Injection attacks possible.

Affected Versions:
WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin before 1.6.3.

QID Detection Logic:
This QID sends a HTTP POST request to "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" with SQL Injection payload and based on the response confirms if the target is vulnerable.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries on the target system.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to install latest Photo Gallery version.
If upgrading is not possible, please refer to mitigation details mentioned on WordPress site.

Vendor References

WPScan - wpscan.com/vulnerability/2b4866f2-f511-41c6-8135-cf1e0263d8de

CVEs related to QID 150519

CVE-2022-1281 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
WordPress			wordpress.org/plugins/photo-gallery/#description
WordPress			plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2706797/photo-gallery/trunk/frontend/models/BWGModelGalleryBox.php?old=2587758&old_path=photo-gallery%2Ftrunk%2Ffrontend%2Fmodels%2FBWGModelGalleryBox.php

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