WP Symposium Plugin for WordPress forum.php 'show' Parameter SQL Injection

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83525

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Synopsis

The remote web server hosts a web application that is affected by a SQL injection vulnerability.

Description

The WordPress WP Symposium Plugin installed on the remote host is affected by a SQL injection vulnerability due to a failure to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the 'show' parameter of the forum.php script. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue to inject or manipulate SQL queries in the back-end database, resulting in the manipulation or disclosure of arbitrary data.

Solution

Upgrade to WP Symposium Plugin version 15.4 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83525

File Name: wordpress_wp_symposium_forum_sql_injection.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 5/18/2015

Updated: 6/5/2024

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wpsymposium:wp_symposium, cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress

Required KB Items: installed_sw/WordPress, www/PHP, Settings/ParanoidReport

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Exploited by Nessus: true

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2015

Exploitable With

Elliot (Wordpress WP Symposium 15.1 SQL Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3325

BID: 74237

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