The vulnerable system is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed below, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed “remotely exploitable” and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers). An example of a network attack is an attacker causing a denial of service by sending a specially crafted TCP packet across a wide area network (e.g., CVE-2004-0230).
Attack Complexity
Low
AC
The attacker must take no measurable action to exploit the vulnerability. The attack requires no target-specific circumvention to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable system.
Privileges Required
None
PR
The attacker is unauthenticated prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files of the vulnerable system to carry out an attack.
User Interaction
None
UI
The vulnerable system can be exploited without interaction from any human user, other than the attacker. Examples include: a remote attacker is able to send packets to a target system a locally authenticated attacker executes code to elevate privileges
Scope
Unchanged
S
An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In the case of a vulnerability in a virtualized environment, an exploited vulnerability in one guest instance would not affect neighboring guest instances.
Confidentiality
High
C
There is total information disclosure, resulting in all data on the system being revealed to the attacker, or there is a possibility of the attacker gaining control over confidential data.
Integrity
High
I
There is a total compromise of system integrity. There is a complete loss of system protection, resulting in the attacker being able to modify any file on the target system.
Availability
High
A
There is a total shutdown of the affected resource. The attacker can deny access to the system or data, potentially causing significant loss to the organization.
Below is a copy: WordPress Booking Calendar 7.0 / 7.1 SQL Injection / Local File Inclusion
DefenseCode ThunderScan SAST Advisory: WordPress Booking Calendar
Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Advisory ID: DC-2017-12-005
Advisory Title: WordPress Booking Calendar Plugin Multiple Vulnerabilities
Advisory URL: http://www.defensecode.com/advisories.php
Software: WordPress Booking Calendar plugin
Language: PHP
Version: 7.0/7.1 and below
Vendor Status: Vendor contacted, updates released
Release Date: 2017/12/13
Risk: Medium
1. General Overview
===================
During the security audit of Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress
CMS, multiple vulnerabilities were discovered using DefenseCode
ThunderScan application source code security analysis platform.
More information about ThunderScan is available at URL:
http://www.defensecode.com
2. Software Overview
====================
Booking Calendar plugin - described by the authors as the ultimate
booking system for online reservation and availability checking
service for your site.
According to wordpress.org, it has more than 40,000 active installs.
Homepage:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/booking/
http://wpbookingcalendar.com/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/booking/#developers
3. Vulnerability Description
============================
During the security analysis, ThunderScan discovered SQL injection and
Local file inclusion vulnerabilities in Booking Calendar WordPress
plugin.
The easiest way to reproduce the SQL injection vulnerabilities is to
send the specified parameter to the provided URL while being logged in
as administrator or another user that is authorized to access the
plugin settings page. Users that do not have full administrative
privileges could abuse the database access the vulnerabilities provide
to either escalate their privileges or obtain and modify database
contents they were not supposed to be able to.
By requesting a specially crafted URL, the attacker can cause remote
server to execute a php file of his choosing. Although the user
requesting the URL has to be logged into the WordPress administrative
console, the attacker can cause the administrator to request such a
URL by using various social engineering/phishing approaches. Specified
file will be interpreted by php interpreter, and any valid php code
will indeed be executed. If the php installation on server has
"allow_url_include=1" configuration option set, this attack can be
expanded to execute a php file from any remote URL. If the php version
is less than 5.3.4, the ".php" that gets appended to the end of the
file name attacker chose can be omitted by adding a null character
("%00") to the requested URL, and enable the attacker to execute any
file, regardless of the extension.
Due to the CSRF token needed to perform the attack the risk is lowered
to medium.
3.1. SQL injection
Function: $wpdb->query()
Variable: $_POST[ "booking_id" ];
Vulnerable URL: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
File: booking\lib\wpbc-ajax.php
---------
152 $booking_id = $_POST[ "booking_id" ];
153 $approved_id = explode('|',$booking_id);
...
162 $approved_id_str = join( ',', $approved_id);
...
165 if ( false === $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE
{$wpdb->prefix}bookingdates SET approved = %s WHERE booking_id IN
({$approved_id_str})", $is_approve_or_pending ) ) ){
---------
3.2. SQL injection
Function: $wpdb->query()
Variable: $_POST[ "booking_id" ];
Vulnerable URL: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Vulnerable code snippets:
File: booking\lib\wpbc-ajax.php
---------
110 $id_of_new_bookings = $_POST[ "booking_id" ];
111 $arrayof_bookings_id = explode('|',$id_of_new_bookings);
...
114 wpbc_update_number_new_bookings( $arrayof_bookings_id,
$is_new , $user_id );
---------
File: booking\lib\wpdev-booking-functions.php
---------
1468 function wpbc_update_number_new_bookings(
$id_of_new_bookings, $is_new = '0' , $user_id = 1 ){
...
1485 $update_sql = "UPDATE {$wpdb->prefix}booking AS bk SET
bk.is_new = {$is_new} WHERE bk.booking_id IN ( {$id_of_new_bookings} ) ";
...
1487 if ( false === $wpdb->query( $update_sql ) ) {
---------
3.3 PHP file inclusion
Function: include()
Variable: $_POST['captcha_chalange']
Vulnerable URL: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Vulnerable code snippets:
File: booking\core\lib\wpbc-booking-new.php
---------
127 if (! wpbc_check_CAPTCHA( $_POST['captcha_user_input'],
$_POST['captcha_chalange'], $bktype ) ) {
...
19 function wpbc_check_CAPTCHA( $the_answer_from_respondent,
$prefix, $bktype ) {
...
23 $correct = $captcha_instance->check($prefix,
$the_answer_from_respondent);
---------
File: wp-content\plugins\booking\js\captcha\captcha.php
---------
139 function check( $prefix, $response ) {
...
141 include( $this->tmp_dir . $prefix . '.php' );
---------
4. Solution
===========
Vendor resolved the security issues. All users are strongly advised to
update WordPress Booking Calendar plugin to the latest available
version.
5. Credits
==========
Discovered by Neven Biruski using DefenseCode ThunderScan source code
security analyzer.
6. Disclosure Timeline
======================
2016/11/15 Vulnerabilities discovered
2017/04/04 Vendor contacted
2017/04/04 Vendor responded - 7.0 already fixed SQL injection vulns
2017/04/04 Update released for LFI (7.1)
2017/12/13 Advisory released to the public
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====================
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