DefenseCode ThunderScan SAST Advisory: WordPress Smooth Slider Plugin SQL injection Security Vulnerability Advisory ID: DC-2018-01-004 Advisory Title: WordPress Smooth Slider Plugin SQL injection Security Vulnerability Advisory URL: http://ift.tt/2rhPqdW Software: WordPress Smooth Slider plugin Language: PHP Version: 2.8.6 and below Vendor Status: Vendor contacted, update released Release Date: 2018/01/10 Risk: Medium 1. General Overview =================== During the security audit of Smooth Slider 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, Smooth Slider is a free WordPress slider plugin to create image slider, post slider, content slider, video slideshow with responsive design. According to wordpress.org, it has more than 20 000 active installs. Homepage: http://ift.tt/1it77rl http://ift.tt/1s1DHs2 3. Vulnerability Description ============================ During the security analysis, ThunderScan discovered SQL injection vulnerability in Smooth Slider 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_var() Variable: $_GET['trid'] Vulnerable URL: http://ift.tt/2mlaE6u OR SLEEP(5) File: smooth-slider\smooth-slider.php
Source: Gmail -> IFTTT-> Blogger
No comments:
Post a Comment