# CVE-2022-1685: Five Minute Webshop <= 1.3.2 - Admin+ SQLi via orderby

> An authenticated admin can exploit SQL injection in the Five Minute Webshop plugin to read or modify database contents.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Jun 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4588-f2xw-66mq

## What is CVE-2022-1685?

CVE-2022-1685 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown Five Minute Webshop, published on 6 Jun 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Five Minute Webshop WordPress plugin through 1.3.2 does not properly validate and sanitise the orderby parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the Manage Products admin page, leading to an SQL Injection

Weakness: CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1685?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Five Minute Webshop Project Five Minute Webshop.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-1685?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-1685 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-1685 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1685 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Five Minute Webshop

- [CVE-2022-1686](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1686/): Five Minute Webshop <= 1.3.2 - Admin+ SQLi via id (low 2.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-1685 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-1685 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown Five Minute Webshop, published on 6 Jun 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1685 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Five Minute Webshop. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1685/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1685/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1685
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1685
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-1685

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1685/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.