Wow-Company Wow Viral Signups 2.1 on WordPress Requests admin-ajax.php idsignup sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in Wow-Company Wow Viral Signups 2.1 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file admin-ajax.php of the component Requests Handler. Executing a manipulation of the argument idsignup can lead to sql injection. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2017-20245. The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Wow-Company Wow Viral Signups 2.1 on WordPress and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the file admin-ajax.php of the component Requests Handler. The manipulation of the argument idsignup with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was presented by Tad Group as 41921. The advisory is shared for download at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2017-20245 since 06/08/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1505.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:admin-ajax.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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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• Wow-Company

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• Wow Viral Signups

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• 2.1

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• end of life

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