WordPress LeagueManager Plugin Security Bypass and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities


Description   Two vulnerabilities have been reported in the LeagueManager plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and conduct SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed via the "league_id" POST parameter to /wp-admin/admin.php (when "page" is set to "leaguemanager-export", "mode" is set to "teams", and "leaguemanager_export" is set to an arbitrary value) is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
2) The application does not sufficiently verify authorization when accessing the CSV export functionality. This can be exploited to e.g. disclose potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 3.8. Prior versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
WordPress LeagueManager Plugin 3.x
     
Solution   Update to version 3.8.1.
     
CVE  
     
References   LeagueManager:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/leaguemanager/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/682945/leaguemanager/trunk/leaguemanager.php
Joshua Reynolds:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120817/WordPress-LeagueManager-3.8-SQL-Injection.html
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
5.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2013-03-15 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote