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FKIE_CVE-2017-20244

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-09 13:16 - Updated: 2026-07-21 07:10

Severity

8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Summary

Wow Forms WordPress Plugin version 2.1 contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary database information by exploiting an unescaped POST parameter. Attackers can inject SQL code through the 'mwpformid' parameter in requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with the 'send_mwp_form' action to extract sensitive database contents.

References

	URL	Tags
	disclosure@vulncheck.com	http://wow-company.com/
	disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://tad.group
	disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://wordpress.org/plugins/mwp-forms/
	disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41922
	disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wow-forms-wordpress-plugin-sql-injection

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2017-20244 (GCVE-0-2017-20244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-09 11:48 – Updated: 2026-06-09 13:09 Unsupported When Assigned

Title

Wow Forms WordPress Plugin 2.1 SQL Injection

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

8.2 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-89 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Assigner

VulnCheck

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41922	exploit
http://wow-company.com/	product
https://tad.group	product
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mwp-forms/	product
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wow-forms-wo…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Wow-Company	Wow Forms	Affected: 2.1

Date Public

2017-04-25 00:00

Credits

TAD GROUP

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CVE-2017-20244 (GCVE-0-2017-20244)

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