A researcher received a $5,500 bug bounty for discovering a vulnerability (CVE-2024-2879) in LayerSlider, a plug-in with more than a million active installations.
The vulnerability is due to “insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query,” according to Wordfence.
“This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database,” the company said.
Ohh yes, little Bobby Tables.
What a convoluted way they chose to say “we didn’t use a prepared statement” lol
Wordfence is a security and vulnerability monitor for Wordpress. The flaw is in the plugin “layerslider”