CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-20244

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.27%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Wow Forms WordPress Plugin version 2.1 contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary database information by exploiting an unescaped POST parameter. Attackers can inject SQL code through the 'mwpformid' parameter in requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with the 'send_mwp_form' action to extract sensitive database contents.

Risk Assessment

The risk for the organization is the potential for unauthorized access to the entire WordPress database, which could lead to the leakage of confidential information such as user data, passwords, or content.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Wow Forms plugin to the latest available version that fixes this vulnerability, and to deploy web application firewalls (WAF) to block suspicious SQL requests.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Wow Forms WordPress Plugin version 2.1 contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary database information by exploiting an unescaped POST parameter. Attackers can inject SQL code through the 'mwpformid' parameter in requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with the 'send_mwp_form' action to extract sensitive database contents.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS