QID 730410

Date Published: 2022-03-28

QID 730410: Email Subscribers WordPress Plugin Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability

Email Subscribers is a complete newsletter plugin that lets you collect leads, send automated new blog post notification emails, create and send broadcasts and also manage them all in one single place.

CVE-2022-0439: The Email Subscribers and Newsletters WordPress plugin before 5.3.2 does not correctly escape the 'order' and 'orderby' parameters to the 'ajax_fetch_report_list' action, making it vulnerable to blind SQL injection attacks by users with roles as low as Subscriber.

Affected Versions:
Email Subscribers and Newsletters prior to 5.3.2

QID Detection Logic(Unauthenticated):
This QID leverages the BlindElephant static web application fingerprinting engine to detect vulnerable systems.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an low privileged attacker to execute arbitrary queries on the database.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • Solution
    The vendor has released a patch in Email Subscribers 5.3.2 or later to remediate this vulnerability.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 730410

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    Email Subscribers Release Notes URL Logo wordpress.org/plugins/email-subscribers/#developers
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