CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-20245

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 Viral Signups 2.1 WordPress plugin contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to extract database information by exploiting the unescaped 'idsignup' POST parameter. Attackers can send crafted requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with malicious SQL payloads in the 'idsignup' parameter to read arbitrary data from the database.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential theft of sensitive data such as user passwords, personal information, or API keys, which could lead to compromise of the entire WordPress site and loss of user trust.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Wow Viral Signups plugin to the latest available version or remove it entirely if not essential. Additionally, consider deploying a web application firewall (WAF) to block suspicious SQL requests.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Wow Viral Signups 2.1 WordPress plugin contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to extract database information by exploiting the unescaped 'idsignup' POST parameter. Attackers can send crafted requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with malicious SQL payloads in the 'idsignup' parameter to read arbitrary data from the database.

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