FKIE_CVE-2017-20244

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-09 13:16 - Updated: 2026-06-09 13:51
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
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttp://wow-company.com/
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://tad.group
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/mwp-forms/
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41922
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wow-forms-wordpress-plugin-sql-injection
Impacted products
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