Sympies Wordpress Survey And Poll 1.1.7 admin/ settings.php ajax_survey survey_id sql injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Sympies Wordpress Survey And Poll 1.1.7 and classified as critical. Affected is the function ajax_survey of the file settings.php of the component admin/. The manipulation of the argument survey_id leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2015-2090. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sympies Wordpress Survey And Poll 1.1.7 (Content Management System). This issue affects the function ajax_survey of the file settings.php of the component admin/. The manipulation of the argument survey_id with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

SQL injection vulnerability in the ajax_survey function in settings.php in the WordPress Survey and Poll plugin 1.1.7 for Wordpress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the survey_id parameter in an ajax_survey action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

The weakness was published 02/26/2015 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at wordpress.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-2090 since 02/26/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1505 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed by Securely (Yoo Hee man) and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 15 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:settings.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (36054), SecurityFocus (BID 74890†) and OSVDB (118218†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Sql injection
CWE: CWE-89 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Securely (Yoo Hee man)
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 130381
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2015-2090 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-2090
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-74315
SecurityFocus: 74890 - WordPress Survey and Poll Plugin 'settings.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability
OSVDB: 118218

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/30/2015 12:24
Updated: 03/02/2025 20:23
Changes: 03/30/2015 12:24 (47), 04/14/2018 08:30 (16), 04/16/2022 22:18 (3), 03/02/2025 20:23 (14)
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