SNS Vulnerability

WordPress Spider Catalog Plugin Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Spider Catalog plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed via the "id" parameter of the "[Spider_Catalog_Category]" or the "[Spider_Catalog_Product]" shortcodes when creating posts is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires privilege to manage posts.
2) Input passed via the "s" parameter to index.php is not properly sanitised in wp-content/plugins/catalog/catalog.php before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
3) Input passed via the "search_events_by_title", "asc_or_desc", and "order_by" POST parameters to wp-admin/admin.php (when "page" is set to "Categories_Spider_Catalog" or "Products_Spider_Catalog" and "serch_or_not" is set to "search") is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
4) Input passed via the "delay", "slideShowQ", "allImagesQ", "spiderShop", "darkBG", and "juriroot" GET parameters to wp-content/plugins/catalog/spiderBox/spiderBox.js.php and to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php (when "action" is set to "spiderboxjsphp") is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.4.7. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Spider Catalog Plugin 1.x

Solution

No official solution is currently available.

CVE

References

waraxe-2013-SA#105:
http://www.waraxe.us/advisory-105.html

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header	4.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Authentication bypass attempt with OR statement	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	5.0.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2013-05-24

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote