WP Symposium < 15.8 - Blind SQL Injection

7.2
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVSS 7.2 (High)
Publicly Published August 10, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Glyn Wintle

Description

The WP Symposium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to blind SQL Injection in versions before 15.8 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.

Wordfence blocked 2,259,153 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Symposium

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-symposium (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 15.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 15.8
Patched Version
  • 15.8

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