SNS Vulnerability

WordPress BuddyPress Plugin "exclude" SQL Injection Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in the BuddyPress plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "exclude" POST parameter to wp-load.php (when "action" is set to "activity_widget_filter" and "page" is 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 1.5.4. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress BuddyPress Plugin 1.x

Solution

Update to version 1.5.5.

CVE

References

Ivan Terkin:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18690/
WordPress BuddyPress Plugin:
http://buddypress.org/2012/03/buddypress-1-5-5/

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 - 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

2012-04-02

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote