full-disclosure - Re: Wordpress plugin 'Analytics360'- authenticated user sql injection

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:14:05 +0000
From: Benji <me@...ji.com>
To: "Jan G.B." <ro0ot.w00t@...glemail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Wordpress plugin 'Analytics360'-
	authenticated user sql injection

http://crowdfavorite.com/ loads fine here.

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Jan G.B. <ro0ot.w00t@...glemail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I just noticed that authenticated users for the admin area of a wordpress
> blog may inject code into database queries, when the plugin "Analytics360"
> is activated.
>
> ### BASIC INFORMATION ###
>
> Plugin Name: Analytics360
> Plugin URI:
> http://www.mailchimp.com/wordpress_analytics_plugin/?pid=wordpress&source=website
> Author: Crowd Favorite
> Author URI: http://crowdfavorite.com
>
>
> ### Affected Version ###
>
> Analytics360 v.1.2
> (and earlier Versions, I guess…)
>
>
> ### Risk ###
>
> Well, I can't classify this. When you're not insane, you shouldn't have
> people as admins, who inject code into the database queries.
> But, when you have such admins, or your WP-Login is collected by phishing
> or something alike, your db server and data may be at risk.
> It all depends on your setup and permissions. However, the bug is easy to
> fix and so it should be fixed.
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpdb_Class#Run_Any_Query_on_the_Database
>
>
> ### DETAILS ###
>
> The code contains this evil part in analytics360.php:
> --------
>   case 'get_wp_posts':
>           add_filter('posts_where', create_function(
>                   '$where',
>                   'return $where." AND post_date >=
> \''.$_GET['start_date'].'\' AND post_date < \''.$_GET['end_date'].'\'";'
>           ));
> --------
>
>
> ### Disclosure Timeline ###
>
> You're the first to know.
> Anyone is able to telnet crowdfavorite.com:80 ? As I'm writing this, the
> site is unresponsive.
> So this is what happens when you include a website as contact information:
> you don't get the message.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
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