CVE-2022-0513 - CVE House

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Status published Critical CVE-2022-0513

WP Statistics <= 13.1.4 Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection via exclusion_reason

9.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The WP Statistics WordPress plugin is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to insufficient escaping and parameterization of the exclusion_reason parameter found in the ~/includes/class-wp-statistics-exclusion.php file which allows attackers without authentication to inject arbitrary SQL queries to obtain sensitive information, in versions up to and including 13.1.4. This requires the "Record Exclusions" option to be enabled on the vulnerable site.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Cyku Hong from DEVCORE

References

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Affected Vendor

VeronaLabs

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Affected Software

WP Statistics

Vulnerable Versions:

13.1.4

Timeline

Official Publish: February 16th, 2022

Last Modified: February 10th, 2025

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1213.006 Databases

T1485 Data Destruction