SNS Vulnerability

WordPress Auctions Plugin "wpa_id" SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Description

Sherl0ck_ has discovered two vulnerabilities in the Auctions plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "wpa_id" parameter to wp-admin/admin.php (when "page" is set to "wp-auctions-add", "wpa_action" is set to "edit" or "relist", and "_wpnonce" is set to a valid value) is not properly sanitised in wp-content/plugins/wp-auctions/wp-auction.php before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation requires the "Editor" role.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.8.8. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Auctions Plugin 1.x

Solution

Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

CVE

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-09/0161.html

Vulnerability Manager Detection

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

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2011-09-15

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote