#Vulnerability title: Radexscript CMS 2.2.0 - SQL Injection vulnerability
#Vendor: http://redaxscript.com/
#Product: Radexscript CMS
#Software link: http://redaxscript.com/download/releases
#Affected version: Redaxscript 2.2.0
#Fixed version: Redaxscript 2.3.0
#CVE ID: CVE-2015-1518
#Author: Pham Kien Cuong (cuong.k.p...@itas.vn) & ITAS Team (www.itas.vn)
:: PROOF OF CONCEPT ::
POST /redaxscript/ HTTP/1.1
Host: target.local
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
Cookie: PHPSESSID=khtnnm1tvvk3s12if0no367872;
GEAR=local-5422433b500446ead50002d4
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 96
search_terms=[SQL INJECTION
HERE]&search_post=&token=24bcb285bc6f5c93203e4f95d9f2008331faf294&search_pos
t=Search
- Vulnerable parameter: $search_terms
- Vulnerable file: redaxscript/includes/search.php
- Vulnerable function: search_post()
- Vulnerable code:
function search_post()
{
/* clean post */
if (ATTACK_BLOCKED < 10)
{
$search_terms = clean($_POST['search_terms'], 5);
}
/* validate post */
if (strlen($search_terms) < 3 || $search_terms == l('search_terms'))
{
$error = l('input_incorrect');
}
/* query results */
else
{
$search = array_filter(explode(' ', $search_terms));
$search_keys = array_keys($search);
$last = end($search_keys);
/* query search */
$query = 'SELECT id, title, alias, description, date,
category, access FROM ' . PREFIX . 'articles WHERE (language = \'' .
Redaxscript\Registry::get('language') . '\' || language = \'\') && status =
1';
if ($search)
{
$query .= ' && (';
foreach ($search as $key => $value)
{
$query .= 'title LIKE \'%' . $value . '%\'
|| description LIKE \'%' . $value . '%\' || keywords LIKE \'%' . $value .
'%\' || text LIKE \'%' . $value . '%\'';
if ($last != $key)
{
$query .= ' || ';
}
}
$query .= ')';
}
$query .= ' ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 50';
$result =
Redaxscript\Db::forTablePrefix('articles')->rawQuery($query)->findArray();
$num_rows = count($result);
if ($result == '' || $num_rows == '')
{
$error = l('search_no');
}
/* collect output */
else if ($result)
{
$accessValidator = new
Redaxscript\Validator\Access();
$output = '<h2 class="title_content
title_search_result">' . l('search') . '</h2>';
$output .= form_element('fieldset', '',
'set_search_result', '', '', '<span class="title_content_sub
title_search_result_sub">' . l('articles') . '</span>') . '<ol
class="list_search_result">';
foreach ($result as $r)
{
$access = $r['access'];
/* if access granted */
if ($accessValidator->validate($access,
MY_GROUPS) === Redaxscript\Validator\Validator::PASSED)
{
if ($r)
{
foreach ($r as $key =>
$value)
{
$$key =
stripslashes($value);
}
}
/* prepare metadata */
if ($description == '')
{
$description = $title;
}
$date = date(s('date'),
strtotime($date));
/* build route */
if ($category == 0)
{
$route = $alias;
}
else
{
$route =
build_route('articles', $id);
}
/* collect item output */
$output .= '<li
class="item_search_result">' . anchor_element('internal', '',
'link_search_result', $title, $route, $description) . '<span
class="date_search_result">' . $date . '</span></li>';
}
else
{
$counter++;
}
}
$output .= '</ol></fieldset>';
/* handle access */
if ($num_rows == $counter)
{
$error = l('access_no');
}
}
}
/* handle error */
if ($error)
{
notification(l('something_wrong'), $error);
}
else
{
echo $output;
}
}
:: SOLUTION ::
Update to Redaxscript 2.3.0
:: INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ::
- 11/27/2014: Inform the vendor
- 11/28/2014: Vendor confirmed
- 01/29/2015: Vendor releases patch
- 01/05/2015: ITAS Team publishes information
:: REFERENCE ::
-
http://www.itas.vn/news/itas-team-found-out-a-sql-injection-vulnerability-in
-redaxscript-2-2-0-cms-75.html
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