Piwigo up to 2.9.2 Administration Panel admin/tags.php tags sql injection

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Piwigo up to 2.9.2. The affected element is an unknown function of the file admin/tags.php of the component Administration Panel. The manipulation of the argument tags as part of Parameter results in sql injection. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-6883. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Piwigo up to 2.9.2 (Photo Gallery Software). Affected is an unknown code block of the file admin/tags.php of the component Administration Panel. The manipulation of the argument tags as part of a Parameter leads to a sql injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Piwigo before 2.9.3 has SQL injection in admin/tags.php in the administration panel, via the tags array parameter in an admin.php?page=tags request. The attacker must be an administrator.

The bug was discovered 02/11/2018. The weakness was published 02/24/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-6883 since 02/10/2018. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 13 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:admin/tags.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 2.9.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Photo Gallery Software

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• Piwigo

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• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.2

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/

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