Fortinet Discovers WordPress AdRotate SQL Injection Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in AJDG Solutions AdRotate plugin for WordPress.

With AdRotate you can easily place advertising banners pretty much anywhere on your site while managing everything from the easy to use dashboard. No fussing with your themes code if you don't want to.

A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the AJDG Solutions AdRotate plugin through 5.2 for WordPress. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands on the affected system.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

WordPress.AJDGSolutions.AdRotate.SQL.Injection

User should apply the patch provided by AJDG Solutions

https://wordpress.org/plugins/adrotate 

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to AJDG Solutions on July 09, 2019.

AJDG Solutions asked for more information and confirmed the vulnerability on July 10, 2019. 

AJDG Solutions released patch for the vulnerability on July 12, 2019.


Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Tin Duong of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

IPS Subscription

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