SNS Vulnerability

WordPress GRAND Flash Album Gallery Plugin Multiple Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GRAND Flash Album Gallery plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, disclose sensitive information, and conduct SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed via the "want2Read" parameter to wp-content/plugins/flash-album-gallery/admin/news.php is not properly verified before being used to read files. This can be exploited to read arbitrary files from local resources via directory traversal sequences.
This vulnerability is confirmed in versions 0.58pl1, 1.56, and 1.57. Other versions may also be affected.
2) Input passed via the "pid" parameter to wp-content/plugins/flash-album-gallery/lib/hitcounter.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
This vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.58pl1. Other versions may also be affected.
3) Input passed to the "i" parameter in wp-content/plugins/flash-album-gallery/facebook.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
This vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.56. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress GRAND Flash Album Gallery Plugin 0.xWordPress GRAND Flash Album Gallery Plugin 1.x

Solution

Update to version 1.57, which fixes vulnerabilities #2 and #3. Update to version 1.76, which fixes vulnerability #3.

CVE

References

GRAND Flash Album Gallery:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flash-album-gallery/changelog/
High-Tech Bridge SA (HTB22870
HTB22871):
http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/sql_injection_in_grand_flash_album_gallery_wordpress_plugin.html
http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/file_content_disclosure_in_grand_flash_album_gallery_wordpress_plugin.html
Am!r:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/107424/wpfag-xss.txt

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL	3.2.0
Misc : Directory traversal - parameter starting with ../	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found 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
Directory traversal using ..\..	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found 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
Directory traversal	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
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found 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
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters in URL	3.2.0
Directory traversal backward root folder	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header	4.0.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2011-03-08

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote