[FD] DefenseCode ThunderScan SAST Advisory: WordPress Top-10 Plugin SQL Injection Security Vulnerability

DefenseCode ThunderScan SAST Advisory: WordPress Top-10 Plugin            SQL Injection Security Vulnerability Advisory ID:    DC-2017-12-003 Advisory Title: WordPress Top-10 Plugin SQL Injection Security Vulnerability Advisory URL:   http://ift.tt/2rhPqdW Software:       WordPress Top-10 plugin Language:       PHP Version:        2.4.2 and below Vendor Status:  Vendor contacted, update released Release Date:   2017/12/13 Risk:           High 1. General Overview =================== During the security audit of Top-10 plugin for WordPress CMS, security vulnerability was discovered using DefenseCode ThunderScan application source code security analysis platform. More information about ThunderScan is available at URL: http://ift.tt/Vn2J4r 2. Software Overview ==================== According to the plugin developers, Top-10 WordPress plugin can count daily and total visits per post and display the most popular posts based on the number of views. According to wordpress.org, it has more than 30,000 active installs. Homepage: http://ift.tt/2CXzIHn http://ift.tt/2kJug2C 3. Vulnerability Description ============================ During the security analysis, ThunderScan discovered SQL injection vulnerability in Top-10 WordPress plugin. The easiest way to reproduce the vulnerability is to visit the provided URL while being logged in as administrator or another user that is authorized to access the plugin settings page. Users that do not have full administrative privileges could abuse the database access the vulnerability provides to either escalate their privileges or obtain and modify database contents they were not supposed to be able to. 3.1 SQL injection   Vulnerable Function:  $wpdb->get_results( $sql, 'ARRAY_A' )   Vulnerable Variable:  $_REQUEST['orderby']   File:                 Top-10\admin\class-stats.php  

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