{"id":11393,"date":"2021-12-15T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=11393"},"modified":"2021-12-15T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:47:37","slug":"all-in-one-seo-vulnerabilities-wordpress-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/all-in-one-seo-vulnerabilities-wordpress-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"All In One SEO Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-25036 &#038; CVE-2021-25037) Fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During an internal audit, security researchers at Jetpack uncovered two All In One SEO vulnerabilities described as severe. An <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/sql\">SQL<\/a> Injection vulnerability and a Privilege Escalation bug were discovered in <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/all-in-one-seo-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this popular WordPress plugin<\/a> installed 3+ million times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If exploited these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain privileged database access thereby exposing usernames and hashed passwords in addition to other data as well as allowing low-privileged accounts, like subscribers to perform remote code execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Authenticated Privilege Escalation (CVE-2021-25036)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Authenticated Privilege Escalation bug could grant hackers access to protected REST API endpoints they shouldn&#8217;t have access to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All In One SEO Plugin affected releases include every version between 4.0.0 and 4.1.5.2 inclusively. The <a href=\"https:\/\/aioseo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plugin developers<\/a> recently patched and released version 4.1.5.3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Authenticated SQL Injection (CVE-2021-25037)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This vulnerability could be exploited via the <code>PostsTerms::searchForObjects()<\/code> method, which is accessible via the <code>\/wp-json\/aioseo\/v1\/objects<\/code> REST API route only escaped user input using <code>wpdb::esc_like()<\/code> before appending the input to an SQL query.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the said method is not designed to escape quotes, an attacker could still inject them and force the query to leak sensitive information from the database, like user credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally the above endpoint is not meant to be accessible to users with low-privileged accounts, the Authenticated Privilege Escalation bug makes it possible for an attacker to abuse this vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every All In One SEO plugin release between 4.1.3.1 and 4.1.5.2 inclusively is affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see more details about these <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/wordpress\">WordPress<\/a> All In One SEO vulnerabilities from this JetPack post <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/2021\/12\/14\/severe-vulnerabilities-fixed-in-all-in-one-seo-plugin-version-4-1-5-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We strongly recommend that affected users update to the latest plugin version immediately and that you share this post within the WordPress <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/community\">community<\/a> to create awareness among site owners about these vulnerabilities and how to stay safe from any attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an internal audit, security researchers at Jetpack uncovered two All In One SEO vulnerabilities described as severe. 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