🛡️ CVE-2022-0254 — zero-spam

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-89 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

SQL Injection in WordPress Zero Spam WordPress plugin

The WordPress Zero Spam WordPress plugin before 5.2.13 does not properly sanitise and escape the order and orderby parameters before using them in a SQL statement in the admin dashboard, leading to a SQL injection

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0254 is classified as CWE-89: SQL Injection. Untrusted input is concatenated into an SQL statement, letting an attacker change the query and reach data the request should not return.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0254 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • bmarshall511/wordpress-zero-spam (fixed in 5.2.13)
  • zero-spam (fixed in 5.2.11)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 March 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org (Web)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org (Web)
wpscan.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-89
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-03-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bmarshall511/wordpress-zero-spam — 5.2.13
zero-spam — 5.2.11

Exploit Protection

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