CVE-2024-12025 PoC — Collapsing Categories <= 3.0.8 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection

Source

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-12025.yaml

Associated Vulnerability

Title:Collapsing Categories <= 3.0.8 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (CVE-2024-12025)
Description:The Collapsing Categories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'taxonomy' parameter of the /wp-json/collapsing-categories/v1/get REST API in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Description

Collapsing Categories plugin for WordPress <= 3.0.8 contains a sql_injection caused by insufficient escaping of 'taxonomy' parameter in /wp-json/collapsing-categories/v1/get REST API, letting unauthenticated attackers execute arbitrary SQL queries, exploit requires sending crafted 'taxonomy' parameter.

File Snapshot


 id: CVE-2024-12025

info:
  name: WordPress Collapsing Categories <= 3.0.8 - SQL Injection
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