WordPress Cart66 Lite Plugin Security Bypass and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities


Description   Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Cart66 Lite plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and conduct SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed via the "q" POST parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php (when "action" is set to "promotionProductSearch") 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 plugin does not properly restrict access to the save settings functionality within the "Cart66Ajax::saveSettings()" function (wp-content/plugins/cart66-lite/models/Cart66Ajax.php), which can be exploited to manipulate otherwise restricted settings.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.5.3. Prior versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Cart66 Lite Plugin 1.x
     
Solution   Update to version 1.5.4.
     
CVE   CVE-2014-9442
     
References   WordPress Cart66 Lite Plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cart66-lite/changelog/
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1052064/cart66-lite
g0blin:
https://research.g0blin.co.uk/g0blin-00022/
     
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 
2014-12-31 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote