Cyr to Lat Plugin up to 3.5 on WordPress sql injection

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Cyr to Lat Plugin up to 3.5 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-4290. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cyr to Lat Plugin up to 3.5 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Cyr to Lat plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authenticated SQL Injection via the 'ctl_sanitize_title' function in versions up to, and including, 3.5 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This potentially allows authenticated users with the ability to add or modify terms or tags to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. A partial patch became available in version 3.6 and the issue was fully patched in version 3.7.

The weakness was shared 04/14/2023. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-4290 since 12/05/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1505 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Cyr to Lat Plugin

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• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5

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