SNS Vulnerability

WordPress WP Forum Server Plugin "edit_post_id" SQL Injection Vulnerability

Description

Miroslav Stampar has discovered a vulnerability in the WP Forum Server plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited my malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed to the "edit_post_id" POST parameter in wp-content/plugins/forum-server/wpf-insert.php (when "edit_post_submit" and "thread_id" are set) is not properly sanitised 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 1.7. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress WP Forum Server Plugin 1.x

Solution

Update to version 1.7.1.

CVE

References

WP Forum Server:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forum-server/changelog/
Miroslav Stampar:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17828/

Vulnerability Manager Detection

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 - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE 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 - 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

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2011-09-13

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote