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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Yoast WordPress SEO. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php of the component admin/. Such manipulation of the argument order leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2015-2292. The attack can be executed remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Yoast WordPress SEO (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php of the component admin/. The manipulation of the argument order 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. CVE summarizes:

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 1.5.7, 1.6.x before 1.6.4, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page to wp-admin/admin.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged using CSRF to allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

The weakness was released 03/17/2015 (Website). The advisory is available at yoast.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-2292 since 03/13/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by Ryan Dewhurst and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. By approaching the search of inurl:admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 13114 (WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin class-bulk-editor-list-table.php Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability).

Upgrading to version 1.6.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (36413), SecurityFocus (BID 73108†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-49186†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-74427 and VDB-75966. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Sql injection
CWE: CWE-89 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
Author: Ryan Dewhurst
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D2Sec: WordPress Yoast SEO 1.7.3.3 SQL Injection

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Upgrade: WordPress SEO 1.6.0

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Advisory: 130811
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-2292 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-2292
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-74426
SecurityFocus: 73108
SecurityTracker: 1031920
Vulnerability Center: 49186 - WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin Remote SQL Commands Execution Vulnerability, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/30/2015 12:38
Updated: 02/27/2025 22:49
Changes: 03/30/2015 12:38 (62), 01/29/2018 16:09 (9), 05/01/2022 14:15 (4), 02/27/2025 22:49 (14)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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