Critical Security Flaw Exposes 1 Million WordPress Sites to SQL Injection (www.darkreading.com)

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[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 22 points 7 months ago

The vulnerability is due to "insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query," according to Wordfence.

"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," the company said.

Ohh yes, little Bobby Tables.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago

What a convoluted way they chose to say “we didn’t use a prepared statement” lol

[-] Limeey@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wordfence is a security and vulnerability monitor for Wordpress. The flaw is in the plugin “layerslider”

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