Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2016-20065. PoCs published by Lenon Leite.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit demonstrates a SQL injection vulnerability in the Product Catalog 8 WordPress plugin (version 1.2) via the 'selectedCategory' POST parameter, which is not properly escaped. The provided HTML form submits a malicious payload to the admin-ajax.php endpoint, exploiting the vulnerability to extract data from the wp_terms table.
Description
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.
Exploits (1)
The exploit demonstrates a SQL injection vulnerability in the Product Catalog 8 WordPress plugin (version 1.2) via the 'selectedCategory' POST parameter, which is not properly escaped. The provided HTML form submits a malicious payload to the admin-ajax.php endpoint, exploiting the vulnerability to extract data from the wp_terms table.
References (4)
Scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N