WordPress Report Brute Force Attacks and Login Protection SQL Injection Vulnerability

A SQL injection vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Report Brute Force Attacks and Login Protection ReportAttacks Plugins, affecting all versions through 2.32. The vulnerability arises from inadequate escaping of user-supplied data in the 'orderby' parameter, allowing authenticated attackers with Administrator-level access to inject additional SQL queries. This exploitation could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information in the database.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for 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 Administrator privileges can send a request to a page that uses the vulnerable plugin. The 'orderby' parameter can be manipulated to inject SQL code, taking advantage of the insufficient data sanitization. Once the injection is successful, the attacker can append SQL commands to the original query, potentially extracting confidential information from the database.

Remediation

Users are advised to update the WordPress Report Brute Force Attacks and Login Protection plugin to version 2.33 or later.