WordPress "XML-RPC" Module Remote SQL Injection and Security Bypass Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in WordPress, which could be exploited by malicious users to bypass security restrictions or conduct SQL injection attacks.
The first issue is due to an input validation error in the "xmlrpc.php" script that does not validate user-supplied arguments before being used in SQL statements, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary SQL queries.
The second issue is due to an access validation error in the "xmlrpc.php" script that does not validate user permissions, which could be exploited by malicious users with contributor privileges and without "publish_posts" permissions to publish certain posts.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
WordPress version 2.1.2 and priorWordPress version 2.0.9 and prior
     
Solution   Upgrade to WordPress version 2.1.3 or 2.0.10 : http://wordpress.org/download/
     
CVE   CVE-2007-1897
CVE-2007-1893
     
References   http://wordpress.org/development/2007/04/wordpress-213-and-2010/
http://www.notsosecure.com/folder2/2007/04/03/wordpress-212-xmlrpc-security-issues/
     
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 - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL
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 - 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 - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing
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 - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
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 - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2007-04-04 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote