EvWill Product Catalog 8 1.2.0 on WordPress POST Request admin-ajax.php UpdateCategoryList selectedCategory sql injection

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in EvWill Product Catalog 8 1.2.0 on WordPress. This impacts the function UpdateCategoryList of the file admin-ajax.php of the component POST Request Handler. The manipulation of the argument selectedCategory results in sql injection. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-20065. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in EvWill Product Catalog 8 1.2.0 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function UpdateCategoryList of the file admin-ajax.php of the component POST Request Handler. The manipulation of the argument selectedCategory with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Product Catalog 8 1.2 plugin for WordPress contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries by injecting malicious code through the selectedCategory parameter. Attackers can submit POST requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with the UpdateCategoryList action to extract sensitive database information from WordPress tables.

The weakness was published by Lenon Leite as 40783. The advisory is available at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2016-20065 since 06/09/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details and a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is shared for download 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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• EvWill

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• Product Catalog 8

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• 1.2.0

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• end of life

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