WordPress Website FAQ Plugin "category" SQL Injection Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been discovered in the Website FAQ plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "category" POST parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php (when "action" is set to "displayAnswer") is not properly sanitised in wp-content/plugins/website-faq/website-faq-widget.php 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 1.1. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Website FAQ Plugin 1.x
     
Solution   Update to version 1.2.
     
CVE  
     
References   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19400/
     
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 
2012-06-27 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote