WordPress WP Symposium Plugin Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
Description
Charlie Eriksen has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the WP Symposium plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users and malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via multiple parameters to various scripts is not properly sanitised before being used in an SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
List of affected scripts and parameters:
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins...mposium_group_functions.php?uid1
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins...osium_mail_functions.php?mail_to
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins..._mail_functions.php?recipient_id
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins...symposium_mail_functions.php?mid
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins...symposium_mail_functions.php?uid
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins...mposium_mail_functions.php?start
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins...posium_mail_functions.php?length
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins...osium_mail_functions.php?mail_id
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins...posium_bar_functions.php?chat_to
http://[host]/wp-content/plugins...ymposium_forum_functions.php?tid
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 12.06.16. Other versions may also be affected.
Vulnerable Products
Vulnerable Software:
WordPress WP Symposium Plugin
Solution
Update to version 12.07.01 or later.
CVE
References
Vulnerability Manager Detection
No
IPS Protection
ASQ Engine alarm
Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement 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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL
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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement 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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header
4.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Authentication bypass attempt with OR statement
5.0.0
Risk level
Moderate
Vulnerability First Public Report Date
2012-07-10
Target Type
Server
Possible exploit
Remote
