WordPress Gallery Objects Plugin 'admin-ajax.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	68791
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2014-5201
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jul 21 2014 12:00AM
Updated:	Aug 14 2014 01:03AM
Credit:	Claudio Viviani
Vulnerable:
Not Vulnerable:

WordPress Gallery Objects Plugin 'admin-ajax.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Gallery Objects plugin for WordPress is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this issue to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Gallery Objects 0.4 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

WordPress Gallery Objects Plugin 'admin-ajax.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attacker can exploit this issue with a browser.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=go_view_object&viewid=[SQLI]&type=html

WordPress Gallery Objects Plugin 'admin-ajax.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

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