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Critical Security Flaw Exposes 1 Million WordPress Sites to SQL Injection (www.darkreading.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

However, to exploit the flaw requires a "a time-based blind approach" on the part of attackers to extract database information, which is "an intricate, yet frequently successful method to obtain information from a database when exploiting SQL Injection vulnerabilities," according to Wordfence.

I wouldn't call that intricate. It's pretty standard to try it since you get immidiate feedback that you can inject sql statements.