CVE · High

CVE-2021-24295 — Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk [cleantalk-spam-protect] < 5.153.4

CVE Vulnerability Type Severity Affected Fixed in Published Status
CVE-2021-24295 Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk [cleantalk-spam-protect] < 5.153.4 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') High 7.5 < 5.153.4 5.153.4 2021-03-05

CVE-2021-24295

The Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk plugin before version 5.153.4 contained an unauthenticated time-based blind SQL injection flaw in the update_log function located in lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/Firewall/SFW.php. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by first obtaining a ct_sfw_pass_key cookie through an initial request, then manually setting a ct_sfw_passed cookie while preventing it from being reset, and finally injecting malicious SQL through the User-Agent header to execute arbitrary queries. The vulnerability required no authentication and could allow an attacker to extract or manipulate sensitive database information.

Based on public CVE data (MITRE/NVD).

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