[FD] DefenseCode ThunderScan SAST Advisory: WordPress Clean Up Optimizer Plugin Security Vulnerability

DefenseCode ThunderScan SAST Advisory: WordPress Clean Up Optimizer                 Plugin Security Vulnerability Advisory ID:    DC-2017-12-004 Advisory Title: WordPress Clean Up Optimizer Plugin Security Vulnerability Advisory URL:   http://ift.tt/2rhPqdW Software:       WordPress Clean Up Optimizer plugin Language:       PHP Version:        4.0.0 and below Vendor Status:  Vendor contacted, update released Release Date:   2017/12/13 Risk:           High 1. General Overview =================== During the security audit of Clean Up Optimizer 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, Clean Up Optimizer is an optimizes your WordPress as well as clean up the obsolete data from database. You can schedule the process of Cleaning, Optimizing, Deleting and Repairing the database tables without going to phpMyAdmin. Homepage: http://ift.tt/1xkuON2 http://ift.tt/2CURT0h According to wordpress.org, it has more than 7,000 active installs. 3. Vulnerability Description ============================ During the security analysis, ThunderScan discovered SQL injection vulnerability in Clean Up Optimizer 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. Due to the missing nonce token, the vulnerable code is also directly exposed to attack vectors such as Cross Site request forgery (CSRF). 3.1 SQL injection   Function: $wpdb->get_results   Variable: $_REQUEST["table_name"]   Sample URL: http://ift.tt/2kIa3dm WHERE 123=123 AND 456=456-- DCDC   File: wp-clean-up-optimizer\includes\queries.php        

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