Perfect Brands for WooCommerce SQL Injection Vulnerability

A time-based SQL injection vulnerability has been identified in the Perfect Brands for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions through 3.6.2. The vulnerability arises from inadequate escaping of user-supplied parameters in the 'brands' attribute of the 'products' shortcode, allowing authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject additional SQL queries. This exploitation could lead to the unauthorized extraction of sensitive information from the database.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for time-based SQL injection, where an attacker can manipulate SQL queries to extract sensitive data from the database.

Reproduction

To reproduce this vulnerability, an authenticated user with Contributor-level access or higher can use the 'products' shortcode with the 'brands' attribute. The lack of proper input sanitization allows for the injection of malicious SQL that can be executed by the database.

Remediation

Users are advised to update the Perfect Brands for WooCommerce plugin to version 3.6.3 or a newer patched version.