SQL Injection in webSPELL

Advisory ID: HTB23291
Product: webSPELL
Vendor: webSPELL.org
Vulnerable Version(s): 4.2.4 and probably prior
Tested Version: 4.2.4
Advisory Publication:  January 22, 2016  [without technical details]
Vendor Notification: January 22, 2016
Vendor Patch: February 12, 2016
Public Disclosure: February 17, 2016
Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection [CWE-89]
Risk Level: Medium
CVSSv3 Base Score: 6.3 [CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L]
Solution Status: Fixed by Vendor
Discovered and Provided: High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab (https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/ )

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Advisory Details:

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered two vulnerabilities in a popular CMS webSPELL developed for the needs of esport related communities. The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker with cashbox access privileges to execute arbitrary SQL commands in application’s database and completely compromise the vulnerable website. This vulnerability can be also exploited by non-authenticated and unprivileged attacker via the CSRF vector, to which the system is also prone.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data passed via "payid" HTTP POST parameter to "/cash_box.php" script. A remote authenticated attacker, with cashbox access privileges, can alter the present SQL query and execute arbitrary SQL commands in application’s database.

A simple exploit below uses a time-based SQL injection technique to determine current version of MySQL server. The page will be loaded with some delay, if the current MySQL server version is 5.x:


<form action="http://[host]/cash_box.php" method="post" name="main">
<input type="hidden" name="pay" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="payid[' PROCEDURE analyse((select extractvalue(rand(), concat(0x3a, (IF(MID(version(), 1, 1) LIKE 5, BENCHMARK(5000000, SHA1(1)), 1))))), 1) -- 2]" value="1">
<input value="submit" id="btn" type="submit" />
</form>


This vulnerability can be also exploited via CSRF vector, as the "/cash_box.php" script does not validate origin of HTTP request before processing user-supplied data in SQL query.


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Solution:

Update to webSPELL 4.2.5

More Information:
https://github.com/webSPELL/webSPELL/issues/309

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References:

[1] High-Tech Bridge Advisory HTB23291 - https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23291 - SQL Injection in webSPELL
[2] webSPELL - https://www.webspell.org/ - webSPELL is a free content management system under GNU GPL for creating websites easily
[3] Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) - http://cwe.mitre.org - targeted to developers and security practitioners, CWE is a formal list of software weakness types.
[4] ImmuniWeb® - https://www.htbridge.com/immuniweb/ - web security platform by High-Tech Bridge for on-demand and continuous web application security, vulnerability management, monitoring and PCI DSS compliance.
[5] Free SSL/TLS Server test - https://www.htbridge.com/ssl/ - check your SSL implementation for PCI DSS and NIST compliance. Supports all types of protocols.

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