16 SQL Injections OCT 2021 – 700% increase spike vs DEC 2020

SQL Injections OCT 2021

Managed WordPress Security Report

Be informed about the latest SQL Injections OCT 2021, identified and reported publicly. As these SQL Injections OCT 2021 vulnerabilities have a severe negative impact on any WordPress Security and hosting server security, consider our FREE security AUDIT.

An estimated 1.371.000+ active WordPress installations are susceptible to this attack type, considering only the publicly available numbers. The estimated number can increase by 20-25% with premium versions as they are private purchases.

Furthermore, the initial estimation can multiply if we consider the already patched versions BUT NOT UPDATED by owners, as the vulnerability remains active within their domain. As these owners start changing their hosting provider (due to constant unexplained issues), they actively migrate these vulnerabilities behind protected areas, possibly exposing other clean WP to different attack types.

It is a mind-boggling 700% increase spike compared to December 2020. We compare last month versus previous winter holiday season, which has the biggest shopping traffic and attack spike throughout the year. Read more about our previous reports here: 21 SQL Injections SEP 2021 – 950% increase spike vs DEC 2020 and 2 SQL Injections – WordPress Security DEC. The following cases made headlines PUBLICLY just last month in the SQL Injections OCT 2021 category:

• Duplicate Post – SQL Injection
  • Copy Page plugin makes it super-easy to duplicate pages or copy posts – and delete them again! Active installations: 40,000+

• Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress – SQL Injection
  • Use Ninja Forms to create beautiful, user friendly WordPress forms that will make you feel like a professional web developer! Active installations: 1+ million

• Registrations for the Events Calendar – Event Registration Plugin – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
• Registrations for the Events Calendar – Event Registration Plugin – Unauthenticated SQL Injection
  • Collect and manage event registrations with a customizable form and email template. Whether you’re holding a meetup, class, workshop, tournament, or any other kind of event, you need a way to handle registration. Our plugin makes managing event registration easy and simple. Even nontechnical users can setup the plugin and start collecting registrations within minutes. Active installations: 10,000+

• Mang Board WP – SQL Injection
  • Mang Board WP is a plugin formed of WordPress BBS providing a variety of features such as storage BBS, Gallery BBS, Calendar BBS, membership management, analytics, ecommerce, social login, social sharing, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Active installations: 9,000+

• Contest Gallery – Photo Contest Plugin for WordPress – Email Address Disclosure
• Contest Gallery – Photo Contest Plugin for WordPress – Missing Access Controls to Unauthenticated SQL injection
  • Highly configurable photo contest gallery plugin for WordPress. Active installations: 2,000+

• BSK PDF Manager – SQL Injection
  • Although the plugin called “PDF Manager” but it also can manage other files such as: pdf, zip, gz, rar, png, jpg, jpeg, gif, tif, tiff, swf, docx, xlsx, pptx, csv, crtfsv, pages, numbers, keynote, ies. Active installations: 10,000+

• Email Before Download – SQL Injection
  • Email Before Download (EBD) presents your users with a form where they submit information, like their name and email address, prior to receiving a download. Active installations: 10,000+

• myCred – Points, Rewards, Gamification, Ranks, Badges & Loyalty Plugin – SQL Injection
  • myCred is an intelligent and adaptive points management system that allows you to build and manage a broad range of digital rewards including points, ranks and, badges on your WordPress/WooCommerce powered website. Active installations: 20,000+

• SEO Redirection Plugin – 301 Redirect Manager – SQL Injection
  • SEO Redirection is a powerful redirect manager to manage 301 redirects, you can build and manage redirects easily for your site, This plugin is useful if you want to migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress website. Active installations: 30,000+

• WP Data Access – SQL Injection
  • WP Data Access is a powerful data administration, publication and development tool that allows you to perform database related tasks from your WordPress dashboard. An intuitive user interface helps to create fully responsive publications and data administration pages. No programming skills required! Active installations: 10,000+

• LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin – SQL Injection
  • LearnPress is a comprehensive WordPress LMS Plugin for WordPress. This is one of the best WordPress LMS Plugins which can be used to easily create & sell courses online. You can create a course curriculum with lessons & quizzes included which is managed with an easy-to-use interface for users. Having this WordPress LMS Plugin, now you have a chance to quickly and easily create education, online school, online-course websites with no coding knowledge required. Active installations: 100,000+

• Modern Events Calendar Lite – Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection
• Modern Events Calendar Lite – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
  • WordPress event calendar plugin is the best tool used for managing events websites. Modern Events Calendar is a comprehensive events management plugin. It is a FREE events management plugin which is extremely user-friendly and well-designed for displaying the events calendar on the websites, ever easier. Active installations: 100,000+

• SEO Booster – SQL Injection
  • This plugin has been closed as of October 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.

• Mediamatic – Media Library Folders – Subscriber+ SQL Injection
  • This plugin has been closed as of October 11, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.

• Quotes Collection – SQL Injection
  • This plugin has been closed as of October 13, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.

• WP User Frontend – Membership, Profile, Registration & Post Submission Plugin for WordPress – SQL Injection
  • WP User Frontend is one of the best frontend builder plugin for WordPress. It includes frontend dashboard, frontend editor & publishing, and frontend uploader for WordPress user profile, post submissions, and memberships. Active installations: 30,000+

BRIEF: SQL Injections OCT 2021 is a code injection technique, used to attack data-driven applications, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution.

What is SQL Injections OCT 2021?

SQL injection is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to interfere with the queries that an application makes to its database. It generally allows an attacker to view data that they are not normally able to retrieve. This might include data belonging to other users, or any other data that the application itself is able to access.

In many cases, an attacker can modify or delete this data, causing persistent changes to the application’s content or behavior. In some situations, an attacker can escalate an SQL injection attack to compromise the underlying server or other back-end infrastructure, or perform a denial-of-service attack.

What is the impact of an SQL Injections OCT 2021?

A successful SQL injection attack can result in unauthorized access to sensitive data, such as passwords, credit card details, or personal user information. Many high-profile data breaches in recent years have been the result of SQL injection attacks, leading to reputational damage and regulatory fines. In some cases, an attacker can obtain a persistent backdoor into an organization’s systems, leading to a long-term compromise that can go unnoticed for an extended period.

What kind of SQL Injections are exploited?

There are a wide variety of SQL injection vulnerabilities, attacks, and techniques, which arise in different situations. Some common SQL injection examples include:
– Retrieving hidden data, where you can modify an SQL query to return additional results.
– Subverting application logic, where you can change a query to interfere with the application’s logic.
– UNION attacks, where you can retrieve data from different database tables.
– Examining the database, where you can extract information about the version and structure of the database.
– Blind SQL injection, where the results of a query you control are not returned in the application’s responses.

 

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