woocommerce-gutenberg-products-block is a feature plugin for WooCommerce Gutenberg Blocks. An SQL injection vulnerability impacts all WooCommerce sites running the WooCommerce Blocks feature plugin between version 2.5.0 and prior to version 2.5.16. Via a carefully crafted URL, an exploit can be executed against the `wc/store/products/collection-data?calculate_attribute_counts[][taxonomy]` endpoint that allows the execution of a read only sql query. There are patches for many versions of this package, starting with version 2.5.16. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.
The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-gutenberg-products-block/security/advisories/GHSA-6hq4-w6wv-8wrp | third party advisory patch |
| https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-gutenberg-products-block-ghsa-6hq4-w6wv-8wrp/pull/1 | broken link |
| https://hackerone.com/reports/1260787 | permissions required |
| https://woocommerce.com/posts/critical-vulnerability-detected-july-2021/ | vendor advisory |
| https://wooengineering.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/incident-report-sql-injection-via-store-api/ | permissions required |