A vulnerability was found in PHPList 3.2.6 (Mailing List Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument sortby with the input value password leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality.

The weakness was disclosed 03/17/2017 by Tim Coen with Curesec Research Team as phplist 3.2.6: SQL Injection as confirmed mailinglist post (Full-Disclosure). The advisory is shared at seclists.org. The public release has been coordinated in cooperation with the project team. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-20031. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The successful exploitation requires a single authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by Tim Coen and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at seclists.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The code used by the exploit is:

http://localhost//lists/admin/?page=users&start=0&find=&findby=&sortby=password&sortorder=desc&change=Go&id=0&find=&findby=email

Upgrading to version 3.3.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries 98915, 98916 and 98918 are pretty similar.

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• Mailing List Software

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• PHPList

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• 3.2.6

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• open-source

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