Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-1012 - SQL Injection vulnerability in Wordpress 1.5.2

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
wordpress
nessus

Summary

SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress 1.5.2, and possibly other versions before 2.0, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the User-Agent field in an HTTP header for a comment.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Wordpress
1

Nessus

NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-200603-01.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200603-01 (WordPress: SQL injection vulnerability) Patrik Karlsson reported that WordPress 1.5.2 makes use of an insufficiently filtered User Agent string in SQL queries related to comments posting. This vulnerability was already fixed in the 2.0-series of WordPress. Impact : An attacker could send a comment with a malicious User Agent parameter, resulting in SQL injection and potentially in the subversion of the WordPress database. This vulnerability wouldn
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id20999
published2006-03-06
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20999
titleGLSA-200603-01 : WordPress: SQL injection vulnerability
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-01.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike 
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(20999);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:43");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-1012");
  script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"200603-01");

  script_name(english:"GLSA-200603-01 : WordPress: SQL injection vulnerability");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200603-01
(WordPress: SQL injection vulnerability)

    Patrik Karlsson reported that WordPress 1.5.2 makes use of an
    insufficiently filtered User Agent string in SQL queries related to
    comments posting. This vulnerability was already fixed in the
    2.0-series of WordPress.
  
Impact :

    An attacker could send a comment with a malicious User Agent
    parameter, resulting in SQL injection and potentially in the subversion
    of the WordPress database. This vulnerability wouldn't affect WordPress
    sites which do not allow comments or which require that comments go
    through a moderator.
  
Workaround :

    Disable or moderate comments on your WordPress blogs."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200603-01"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest version:
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/wordpress-2.0.1'"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:wordpress");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/03/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/03/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/03/06");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("qpkg.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (qpkg_check(package:"www-apps/wordpress", unaffected:make_list("ge 2.0.1"), vulnerable:make_list("le 1.5.2"))) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = qpkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "WordPress");
}