WordPress WP Symposium Plugin "tray" SQL Injection Vulnerability


Description   Kacper Szurek has discovered a vulnerability in the WP Symposium plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "tray" POST parameter to wp-symposium/ajax/mail_functions.php (when "action" is set to "getMailMessage" and "mid" is set to a valid message ID) is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 14.12. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
WordPress WP Symposium Plugin
     
Solution   No official solution is currently available.
     
CVE   CVE-2014-8810
     
References   http://security.szurek.pl/wp-symposium-1410-multiple-xss-and-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 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2014-12-24 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote