How To Automate Security Analysis with the RIPS API

RIPS API RIPS exposes a powerful REST-API, an interface specifically designed for developers and their applications. It is used to provide the web interface with analysis results, to start scans through plugins, to manage users, and much more. In short, the API enables easy automation of all RIPS...

Security Analysis with SonarQube Plugin

SonarQube Figure 1: The SonarQube dashboard lists security vulnerabilities detected by RIPS code analysis. Global organizations use SonarQube to concentrate different quality analysis tools in one place for easy management, maintenance, and learning potential of findings. Seasoned developers are...

WordPress Plugin All In One WP Security & Firewall Cross-Site Scripting

The first plugin that will be analyzed in detail is called All In One WP Security & Firewall. It adds some additional layers of security to Wordpress, for example a brute force protection for the login or file permission checks. There are definitely quite a lot of good ideas integrated into this...

What's new in RIPS 2.0.0?

The new release RIPS 2.0.0 includes the following major changes: A complete new interface with optimized performance demo.ripstech.com A new extensive REST API for full feature automation api.ripstech.com Team and user privilege management Application-specific analysis profiles More detailed code...

What we learned from our Advent Calendar

Vulnerability Types In this years Advent of PHP Application Vulnerabilities APAV, we examined 36 critical security issues which were detected in 19 different PHP applications by our code analysis solution RIPS. We presented a multitude of critical security issues found in widely-used open-source...

e107 2.1.2: SQL Injection through Object Injection

RIPS Analysis The e107 CMS consists of 317,356 lines of code and was analyzed in about 2 minutes. Many of the vulnerabilities found by RIPS are exploitable, despite a few exceptions. The main reason for this is that e107 contains a lot of unused code from previous releases and thus not all affect...

AbanteCart 1.2.8 - Multiple SQL Injections

RIPS Analysis The analysis with RIPS of the well over 200,000 lines of code took 4 minutes to complete. The most critical issues were primarily located in the language manager of the application and could thus be fixed as a bundle. The truncated analysis results are available in our RIPS demo...

Nextcloud: Reflected XSS in U2F plugin by shipping the example endpoints

While running a RIPS scan against our instrumentalized source code it noticed that the file /apps/twofactoru2f/vendor/yubico/u2flib-server/examples/localstorage/index.php echoes on user input: F145451 I was first a tad confused because the examples have been removed from our Git repository, but t...

Kliqqi 3.0.0.5: From Cross-Site Request Forgery to Code Execution

RIPS Analysis RIPS analysis of the 77,000 lines of Kliqqi code took only 31 seconds to complete and was able to discover several risks within the application. There were no critical vulnerabilities found directly but it is possible to escalate one high-rated security issue to a critical one - as ...

osClass 3.6.1: Remote Code Execution via Image File

RIPS Analysis RIPS was able to scan the 156,000 lines of code in just 23 seconds. Looking at the scan results, a high number of vulnerabilities were detected in this project. Especially high-rated vulnerabilities seem to make the race. However, there is no critical-rated vulnerability found on th...

Redaxo 5.2.0: Remote Code Execution via CSRF

RIPS Analysis When inspecting the charts generated by RIPS, a code execution vulnerability indicated as critical catches our eye. Investigating this issue closer quickly reveals that the vulnerability lies in the administrator panel, seemingly nulling the severity of the vulnerability. We will se...

Guest Post: Vtiger 6.5.0 - SQL Injection

RIPS Analysis RIPS analyzed the 27,371 files with around 650,000 lines of code in only 6 minutes. Due to the nature of a CRM system, it is necessary to have a valid user account to access any of the provided features. Nevertheless, the discovered issues allowed low-privileged users to access high...

phpBB 2.0.23 - From Variable Tampering to SQL Injection

RIPS Analysis The forum phpBB2 consists of only 50,000 lines of code and RIPS took only 19 seconds for its in-depth security analysis to complete. It found various PHP object injection vulnerabilities which are less severe due to missing gadget chains. Further, many SQL injections are reported du...

Teampass 2.1.26.8: Unauthenticated SQL Injection

RIPS Analysis RIPS was able to analyze the whole project consisting of 140,000 lines of code in only 25 seconds, uncovering a lot of severe security vulnerabilities. The two main types of issues was SQL injection and file inclusion. Luckily, most of the SQL injections were found in the installati...

Rescanning Applications with RIPS

Benefits One of the most important things in modern application development is to think about security in every step of the development lifecycle. Beginning with the start of the development right up until the continued deployment of patches and features - security is important in all stages of a...

Roundcube 1.2.2 - Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Roundcube 1.2.2: Command Execution via Email ============================================ You can find the online version of the advisory here: https://blog.ripstech.com/2016/roundcube-command-execution-via-email/ Found by Robin Peraglie with...

Precurio 2.1: Remote Command Execution via Xinha Plugin

RIPS Analysis RIPS detected many security vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting issues. In order to exploit most of these vulnerabilities in Precurios code base, a user account is required. Precurio also includes a lot of third-party code though that is directly...

PHPKit 1.6.6: Code Execution for Privileged Users

RIPS Analysis Within only 24 seconds, the analysis with RIPS completed and uncovered critical security vulnerabilities, mainly in the administration section of the application. As we demonstrated in multiple previous calendar posts, these vulnerabilities can be chained with other vulnerabilities...

Roundcube 1.2.2: Command Execution via Email

中文分析：http://paper.seebug.org/138/ Author: p0wd3r, LG 知道创宇404安全实验室 Roundcube is a widely distributed open-source webmail software used by many organizations and companies around the globe. The mirror on SourceForge, for example, counts more than 260,000 downloads in the last 12 months1 which is on...

Serendipity 2.0.3: From File Upload to Code Execution

RIPS Analysis The analysis of Serendipity with RIPS took 67 seconds to complete. The total amount of issues is reasonable for a web application of this size. Most of the 36 low severe issues detected are information leakage issues, for example, when an error message leaks the DBMS system of a...