WooCommerce Lottery Plugin SQL Injection via Order Parameters

The WooCommerce Lottery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Time-Based SQL Injection via 'orderby' and 'order' GET Parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.9 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

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Analysis

The WooCommerce Lottery plugin contains a critical time-based SQL injection vulnerability affecting all versions through 2.2.9. Attackers can manipulate the 'orderby' and 'order' GET parameters to inject arbitrary SQL commands without authentication, allowing extraction of sensitive database information including customer data, payment details, and plugin configurations. This vulnerability is particularly dangerous because it requires no user interaction, no authentication, and affects a widely-deployed WordPress e-commerce plugin, putting thousands of online stores at immediate risk of data compromise.

Casky's 323 matching skills leverage Claude AI's extended reasoning to detect the attack patterns across MITRE techniques TA0001 (Reconnaissance) and TA0043 (Reconnaissance), identifying both initial exploitation attempts and data exfiltration activities. Practitioners using Casky would observe: (1) Detection of unsanitized parameter handling in web request logs showing suspicious SQL syntax in GET parameters; (2) Recognition of time-based blind SQL injection patterns—abnormal response delays or conditional logic in HTTP requests to the affected plugin endpoints; (3) Identification of reconnaissance behavior as attackers probe database structure; (4) Alerting on data exfiltration patterns when SELECT statements target sensitive tables. The platform's CWE-89 (SQL Injection) focused skills would flag the insufficient escaping and lack of prepared statements, while the extended reasoning capabilities help correlate multiple suspicious requests into coherent attack chains rather than isolated events.

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323 Casky skills cover this attack pattern

These skills use Claude AI's reasoning model to surface findings in the same attack categories as CVE-2026-18884.

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mobile security · low

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

TA0001 TA0043

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